Rootbound — The Winter Guests，第 5 页
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A two-panel comic page. Top panel: Fern stands in a long, arched glass conservatory at night, speaking into a wall-mounted rotary phone while Wren stands in a doorway labeled 'ROOM EIGHT' holding a lantern. Bottom panel: Ida is indoors at night, leaning against a desk and speaking into a telephone receiver. Visible text, in reading order: Fern: Ida, who kept the leaf trays? Ida: The night watchman. Ida: He called them his winter guests.
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A two-panel comic page. Top panel: Fern stands in a long, arched glass conservatory at night, speaking into a wall-mounted rotary phone while Wren stands in a doorway labeled 'ROOM EIGHT' holding a lantern. Bottom panel: Ida is indoors at night, leaning against a desk and speaking into a telephone receiver.
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A leaf rising at Room Eight leads Fern and Wren to a tray that refuses to be cleared away. Hidden silk cocoons reveal that the dead night watchman was keeping a promise to his winter guests. With Ida's memory to guide them, they move the undisturbed tray to a cool, sheltered corner rather than a shredder or a heated glasshouse. The watchman lets go when care means leaving something alone. Back in the corridor, rippling water carries a bell from Room Nine.