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Over the years, dozens of writers solemnly laid down their implements of writing on the altar in [[#The Cathedral|the Cathedral]] and gave up on writing forever. None of them ever regretted this vow or went back on it. However, the ritual came to be a subject of stigma, and the Cathedral was dusty and long-abandoned by the time one more writer hesitantly stepped inside and prepared to put their fountain-pen down on the altar. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 45: The Cathedral|The Cathedral]]'') | Over the years, dozens of writers solemnly laid down their implements of writing on the altar in [[#The Cathedral|the Cathedral]] and gave up on writing forever. None of them ever regretted this vow or went back on it. However, the ritual came to be a subject of stigma, and the Cathedral was dusty and long-abandoned by the time one more writer hesitantly stepped inside and prepared to put their fountain-pen down on the altar. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 45: The Cathedral|The Cathedral]]'') | ||
All light in the House once became trapped inside [[#The Tunnel|the Tunnel]], making it into “the Airing Cupboard of Despair”. There were people trapped inside the tunnel, one of whom eventually worked up the courage to creep to the end of the tunnel and unlatch the brass-and-glass hatchway; instead of letting the swirling, silent darkness in as the others feared, this let the light out. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 53: The Airing Cupboard of Despair|The Airing Cupboard of Despair]]'') | |||
After running out of ink, [[Oliver (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|Oliver]] once stumbled through “twisting, whispering hallways”, a stack of paper in his hands and pens, quills and paintbrushes filling his pockets, in search of [[#The Ink Wells|the Ink Wells]]. Following an eerie chant in a dead language, he makes his way to the giant gate made of golden pens, the room behind it too dark to see anything. Putting a hand on the gate, he caled out for “[[Jenny Everywhere#Guardian of the Ink Wells|the Guardian of the Ink Wells]]”. The gate opened of its own accord, and he fell into the room, where an ominous voice asked what his business is. However, when he explained that he simply needed some ink, the lights flashed on to reveal the Guardian, an unassuming teenage girl dressed in robes and [[Jenny Everywhere's goggles|aviator goggles]]. Gesturing at the giant holes in the cement floor behind her, she told him to help himself to “any of the uncovered wells”, claiming that she had “all colors and liquids”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 52: The Guardian of the Ink Wells|The Guardian of the Ink Wells]]'') | |||
Later, the Guardian and her friend [[Treefrog]] decided to take a trip to [[#The Beach|the Beach]] through a portal in [[#The backyard|the backyard]] about which the Guardian had once written a report. Already wearing neon-coloured bathing suits, the two made their way through [[#The Gardens|the Gardens]] and past [[the Bodhi Tree|the giant tree]] until they found the backyard and were teleported to the beach. There, immediately jumping into the almost-glowing blue, breathable water, they spent an hour having fun before resurfacing them. Accidentally discovering another, hitherto-undocumented portal, they suddenly found themselves transported, cold and dripping, to the middle of [[#The Library|the Library]], where they were quickly reprimanded by [[the Librarian]]. Recognising the Guardian, the Librarian addressed her as “Inkstain”, forcing an annoyed Guardian to insist to Treefrog that it ''wasn't'' her real name in the face of Treefrog being all too glad to have a less grandiloquent name than “Guardian” by which to address her friend. This naturally angered the noise-hating Librarian further and she “roared in a whisper” for the girls to be silent. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 55: Teleporting Beach|Teleporting Beach]]'') | |||
At some point, a man came to lie between the roots of [[the Bodhi Tree]] in [[the Gardens]]. He never moved or aged, although his blue eyes were wide open. He became known as “[[the Bodhi Son]]”, and a [[Loom weaver (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|superstitious old woman]] started a tradition of placing candle-prayers at his feet. Over time, this developed into a full religion, with a cathedral of wood and stone being carefully built in the shade of the Tree, with the Bodhi Son lying in the narthex. Eventually, a fire broke out, burning down the cathedral and the Tree itself, but the Bodhi Son was unharmed, crying in his sleep as his face covered with suit. In the instant when the Bodhi Tree finally died, he blinked as he awoke. When he opened his eyes again, they were no longer blue, but green like the Tree's leaves had been. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 39-III: The Bodhi Son|The Bodhi Son]]'') | At some point, a man came to lie between the roots of [[the Bodhi Tree]] in [[the Gardens]]. He never moved or aged, although his blue eyes were wide open. He became known as “[[the Bodhi Son]]”, and a [[Loom weaver (Our Strange and Wonderful House)|superstitious old woman]] started a tradition of placing candle-prayers at his feet. Over time, this developed into a full religion, with a cathedral of wood and stone being carefully built in the shade of the Tree, with the Bodhi Son lying in the narthex. Eventually, a fire broke out, burning down the cathedral and the Tree itself, but the Bodhi Son was unharmed, crying in his sleep as his face covered with suit. In the instant when the Bodhi Tree finally died, he blinked as he awoke. When he opened his eyes again, they were no longer blue, but green like the Tree's leaves had been. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Appendix 39-III: The Bodhi Son|The Bodhi Son]]'') | ||
