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==== Chapter 37: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 1) ==== | ==== Chapter 37: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 1) ==== | ||
The old man, who gives his name as [[Sid]], continues to lead [[Master of the House|the visitor]] through the winding paths that criss-cross [[the Gardens]]. After passing a path that leads to [[the Topiary Veranda]], they reach the entrance of [[the hedge maze]] designed by [[I. T. Haze]]. | The old man, who gives his name as [[Sid]], continues to lead [[Master of the House|the visitor]] through the winding paths that criss-cross [[the Gardens]]. After passing a path that leads to [[the Topiary Veranda]], they reach the entrance of [[the hedge maze]] designed by [[I. T. Haze]]. | ||
==== Chapter 38: The Secrets of Our Gardens (Part 2: Accursed Springs) ==== | |||
When [[Sid]] shows [[Master of the House|his charge]] “[[the training ground of accursed springs]]”, he expresses surprise at such a seemingly malevolent thing being part of [[the Strange and Wonderful House|House]]. Sid tuts at his “mistaken impression that the House is essentially good”: built “on ground that once belonged to [[Faerie]] and made from their wood, (…) something of Faerie still remains within it”. It's all dangerous, “even the ‘good’ parts”, with [[the hedge maze]] being “infested by [[topiary minotaur]]s” and the patterns of light cast by the stained glass windows being liable to teach people “the secret of the universe” and making them go insane, to say nothing of “[[the Spring of Drowned Zombie]]”. Sid adds that “even worse, like many new writers, you think you’re in control of every part of the story”; when the visitor replies that “we” did in fact “make” the House, Sid cryptically implies that this is a limited perspective. They continue walking and find themselves in a landscape which the visitor believed to be “in [[China]], or [[Japan]]”, to which Sid replies that “all three are correct, depending on your perspective”. The visitor suddenly feels calmer and realises that in the distance, he can now glimpse the towering form of [[the Bodhi Tree]]. | |||
=== Worldbuilding=== | === Worldbuilding=== | ||
