Rootbound — An Invitation to Autumn，第 5 頁
作者：Inkroost · 發布於
文字記錄
Two panels. Top: An elderly woman sits at a wooden table indoors, looking down at an empty ceramic bowl. Bottom: A younger woman with a silver streak in her hair speaks on a wall-mounted rotary phone inside a long greenhouse at night, while a bearded man in a jacket stands behind her. White blossoms are scattered on the greenhouse floor. Visible text, in reading order: Ida: I was a child then. Ida: He died before it bore fruit. Fern: It is still trying. Ida: I can wait for autumn.
圖片說明
Two panels. Top: An elderly woman sits at a wooden table indoors, looking down at an empty ceramic bowl. Bottom: A younger woman with a silver streak in her hair speaks on a wall-mounted rotary phone inside a long greenhouse at night, while a bearded man in a jacket stands behind her. White blossoms are scattered on the greenhouse floor.
關於本章
White petals lead Fern and Wren into Room Six, where an apple tree flowers without fruit for a dead gardener's promise to Ida. Fern finds a compatible neighbour and hand-pollinates the blossoms, but refuses to promise a harvest she cannot control. Ida's willingness to wait releases the keeper. Days later a fruitlet forms, while soil creeps beneath Room Seven.