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[path_unprepared]

It takes a moment for him to realise that the ground beneath his feet is not the hard, polished wood of a floor, but something oddly springy.

He slows, and lowers his book.

Somehow, he's not inside Nemuro Memorial Hall on a late afternoon. He's outside, wet grass underfoot and a starry sky above.

This would be strange in and of itself, were it not also for the fact that a short distance away is a greenhouse that looks exactly like the one

('I wonder if the flowers themselves are happy, being forced to last so long.')

in Ohtori.

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[path_unprepared]

He glances behind him, following her pointing finger (somehow refraining from informing her that it is not polite to point), then back at her.

'So I walked through a door and found myself here. If I opened the door, it would lead back to my own...world?'

[mistressmaryquitecontrary]

"It ought to."

Mary's shoulders go up in a quick shrug.

"It does not always. People are sometimes trapped here - it is part of the Magick. But if you are there is not much you can do about it in any case."

[path_unprepared]

The thought of being trapped here is...unnerving, to say the least. Particularly if all those in this place are similar to this young girl.

'I suppose I shall have to find out for myself,' he says. 'Sooner rather than later.' He tucks his book under his arm, and gives Mary another small bow. 'My thanks, Mary Lennox-san. And my apologies for disturbing your garden, and mistaking it for another's.'

After a pause, he adds belatedly, 'I will not step on the pansies.'

[mistressmaryquitecontrary]

"Thank you," Mary says, with dignity.

"It is all right," she adds, generously, after a moment. "I suppose it is an easy confusion to make - and it was not, after all, my garden at first. It was Anthy Himemiya's. She let me have it."

[path_unprepared]

Mikage nods at that. 'I will keep that in mind, then. Good evening, Mary Lennox-san.'

As he turns, and walks back to the bar, he wonders why the name Anthy Himemiya should sound so familiar to him.

[mistressmaryquitecontrary]

Mary could, if she wished, tell him that Anthy Himemiya was a GIANT WEIRDO who kept BOXING KANGAROOS in her arsenal.

But her garden needs tending. And so she doesn't.