Rootbound — The Winter Trowel, Página 4
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Transcripción
Scene: the ghost gestures toward the dead apple tree at the yard's edge, mouth set in old regret. He says: "I died here. Winter of '63." and "Me mother's trowel." Fern listens, windblown, his luminous outline in the corner of the panel. Joss adds: "I never buried it under the tree like I swore." Fern: "You're asking me to."
Descripción de la imagen
The ghost, Joss, explains he died here in the hard winter of 1963 before finishing one promise, pointing toward the old apple tree.
Acerca de este capítulo
While raking the Compost Yard at night, Fern hears a name in the steam. The ghost of Joss Millard, her great-uncle who died in the yard in the hard winter of 1963, waits for one unfinished errand: he never buried his mother's trowel under the old apple tree as he promised before the frost took him. Fern searches, finds the trowel nicked at the corner with a fern stamped near the tang, and learns through Ida why Joss still lingers. When she buries it, the old apple breaks into impossible blossom and Joss fades. In the root pit he reveals the trowel's buried secret, opening the next numbered-location mystery at the Rose Bed arches.