---
id: garden
title: "[ Garden ]"
exitN: "[[well]]"
exitS: "[[back-door]]"
exitE: null
exitW: "[[conservatory]]"
exitU: null
exitD: null
items: []
encounter: "[[garden-procession]]"
---

## first-visit
The garden has grown into the paths and then past them. Box hedges lean together in private corridors. The flowerbeds are black with rain and crowded with stems that hold no flowers.

Lantern light moves beyond the hedge, one small flame after another, though no footstep follows it.

## revisit
The garden listens from behind its leaves.

## examined
The path runs south to the back door and north toward the well. West, a gap in the conservatory glass shows where the ivy has been cut back. The hedges hold still as if they have been warned.
