Rootbound — Room to Grow, Page 11
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A two-panel comic page showing characters planting a hazel sapling. In the top panel, a younger woman and an older man kneel in the dirt by a metal fence, patting soil around the base of the plant. In the bottom panel, an elderly woman stands looking down at the planted sapling. Visible text, in reading order: Fern: It will not be a hedge tomorrow. Ida: Neither were we, when we began.
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A two-panel comic page showing characters planting a hazel sapling. In the top panel, a younger woman and an older man kneel in the dirt by a metal fence, patting soil around the base of the plant. In the bottom panel, an elderly woman stands looking down at the planted sapling.
About this chapter
Wet soil leads Fern and Wren to Room Seven, where a dead gatekeeper's rescued hazel has outgrown its pot. Ida recalls the promised roadside hedge. Rather than postpone the promise with a bigger container, Fern frees the circling roots and plants the shrub beyond the garden gate. The keeper lets go, leaving the living to tend what grows. Back underground, a golden leaf rises against gravity at Room Eight.