Rootbound — Room to Grow, Page 8
By Suha · Published
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A two-panel comic page set at night outside a lit conservatory. In the top panel, a man digs a hole while a woman holds a burlap-wrapped hazel plant. In the bottom panel, the woman measures the hole with a wooden stake. Visible text, in reading order: Wren: Wide enough? Fern: Wide, not deep. Let it breathe.
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A two-panel comic page set at night outside a lit conservatory. In the top panel, a man digs a hole while a woman holds a burlap-wrapped hazel plant. In the bottom panel, the woman measures the hole with a wooden stake.
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.