Re: Episode 1: Gateway
Tilly had a browned, wrinkled face like muffins, and hair spun like frosting. Her grey dress was of little account, and her eyes were clouded from time to time. She was inactive, easily confused, and often watching. Whatever great deeds she had done, it was hard to believe them, seeing her.
Of the demiplane, she said, "It is too quiet here. The sky lacks any life." And she seemed to grow quieter as the days passed into weeks.
But by the second week, the plane had grown a garden, from where, no one could say. Sometimes, Tilly did come to watch, curious, at Mirelinda's work, but she was oftener outdoors. The garden herbs grew plumper and righter.
On the ending of the third week, Tilly cleared a table and, carving up her produce, made them cucumber and tomato salads.
"This is a quieter magic, " she said of the garden. "Who knows if I had a hand in it. Sometimes, life comes from through the cracks and makes its home where you least expect it."
After their return, she grew warmer in spirit but greyer in body, and it was apparent that her days were numbered, unyielding to science or potent enchantments.
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