Rootbound — Room to Grow, Page 5
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A two-panel comic set in a dimly lit potting shed. In the top panel, a man and woman look at a small leafy hazel plant in a cracked clay pot wrapped in a glowing golden thread. In the bottom panel, the thread rises toward a window as the characters watch. Visible text, in reading order: Wren: We could give it a larger pot. Fern: That would only make a larger wait.
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A two-panel comic set in a dimly lit potting shed. In the top panel, a man and woman look at a small leafy hazel plant in a cracked clay pot wrapped in a glowing golden thread. In the bottom panel, the thread rises toward a window as the characters watch.
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.