It's springtime, and now that all the planned work on both the camp and Hanguang-jun's surprise garden is basically done, Magnus has a new project at hand! He's found a part of the Mansion that seems, so far, to be untouched and undiscovered: a derelict swimming pool that opens to a door in a hedge beyond which lies a path that leads to ten different gated gardens, each with different biomes*. Each garden feels impossibly large inside, and yet circumnavigating it with one hand on the boundary hedge never takes longer than twenty minutes. One garden is an oasis in the middle of a desert; another evokes the wilds of Jotunheim, a third -- with just the barest pathway to walk upon to keep your feet above water -- boasts thick, tropical mangroves. There's a dense, humid temperate rainforest, lianas stretching up along tree-trunks, an open prairie strewn with wildflowers, and an area that, upon research, turns out to be an Afro-alpine slope, giant lobelia stretching from solifluction hummocks, stubby strawflower and inflorescent giant groundsels dotting the landscape**.
He sets up base camp at the doorway between the pool and the hedges. He has no experience with glazing windows, and so the cracks in the roof he's leaving be for the time being - at least until he can track Dad down and ask for help figuring it out. But he can scrub down the flooring and make, like, signs or maps or something, so that everyone knows all this stuff is here. And obviously he's going to have to explore all the biomes in order to make appropriate signage.
This is a lengthy undertaking, ultimately, and Magnus would love company for any restoration or exploration work.
*Think Chrestomanci's garden, but slightly less trap-y
**The other four biomes are threaders' choice!
He sets up base camp at the doorway between the pool and the hedges. He has no experience with glazing windows, and so the cracks in the roof he's leaving be for the time being - at least until he can track Dad down and ask for help figuring it out. But he can scrub down the flooring and make, like, signs or maps or something, so that everyone knows all this stuff is here. And obviously he's going to have to explore all the biomes in order to make appropriate signage.
This is a lengthy undertaking, ultimately, and Magnus would love company for any restoration or exploration work.
*Think Chrestomanci's garden, but slightly less trap-y
**The other four biomes are threaders' choice!
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