Into the Garden
It was whispered, first through the Halls of Mage House, then through the entire Coven grounds, and into the city itself that Renna would be opening the Secret Garden to the public for the night of the Rose Moon Festival only.
Visitors would be treated to a startling visual display, and if any found themselves still within the Garden at the end of the festival, they would shortly find themselves gently expelled to the nearest unoccupied spot within the Coven grounds that was not the Garden itself.
And on the night of the Rose Moon alone, the smell of fresh baking would flow through the same Gates that the Secret Garden was made of - flowing out over the Coven grounds and speaking to the senses of near molten chocolate delights - and any who would sample them would have to agree, that the white chocolate rose cookies were the sweetest.
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Coven Bristle Crios. Secret Garden.
The Field lay just within the grounds of the Coven, the the northeastern most fringe of the Estate, hidden over gradual hill and dale and within a verdant copse of trees which would give way to the sprawling, white field.
While simply rectangular in shape the actual cultivated area, or areas, takes the shape of rose petals - four larger beds composed of smaller beds within them, each of the four mini fields separated by what - from above - would look like the seams of petals, but what is - on the ground - crushed stone walkways. Though the cultivated land doesn't touch the corners of the fields due to the mismatched shapes, the corners are utilized as sites for a tool shed, several rain barrels which collect 'natural' condensation, seed storage shed, and a small greenhouse in which to begin plant lets before they're ready for the field.
In the center of the Garden rest four cleanly separated pieces of a large fountain, which although divided into four parts is still functioning with water splashing through the air above and kept in pools ebbing from one part of the fountain to another through Pathfinders gates, which have been inverted to the eye so that the appear invisible. In the perfect center of the Garden lies a bier, made of opaque red light, but seemingly solid to the touch and covered with silky, seemingly artificial rose petals.
A constant white storm - a flurry of rose petals, filtering and dappling the light from above to the earth below - resides constantly above, dotted here and there with the occasional red, and even more rare black petals. The petals blow gently or with fury - completely dependent upon some usually unseen climactic conditions; in truth, the petals are constantly being cycled through the air using a series of inverted Gates which hang suspended in the sky over head, beginning fifteen feet above the ground and continuing upwards for almost seventy five feet into the air - and the climate changes which control the cycle of the storm above is not based on actual wind or storms, but on the emotional state of either of the two people whose wills went into the laying of the spells which hang heavy upon the garden, making the air thick with arcane power. Though normally invisible to the eye, the series of Gates can be seen under, or in, certain conditions of moonlight, though the proper circumstances arise only four times during a normal year - during those times however, the sky is not only filled with rose petals but an intricate lattice work of glowing, ethereal gateways; several layers of gateways deep, the Garden in the moonlight would look almost surrounded by a greenhouse, whose ribs are made of pulsing light instead of metal, and whose panels are gateways instead of glass.
For any upon the bier which rests in the Gardens center, yet another unique trait - the size of the Garden. From the outside, the Garden and Fields only take up roughly one to two acres, but when an occupant of the Garden rests directly in the center, upon the bier of eldritch power, the size of the garden when looking outwards expands until the treeline is nigh on invisible and the garden itself - land and living roses below, petals storming above - gives the appearance of continuing into the infinite edges of the horizon, though this is a trick played on the physics of that central bier - by Pathfinder.
((More to follow before the Rose Moon proper, check the BC forums for updates! Special thanks to Fiona-mun for the help in editing, and Renna-mun for....well....*gestures upwards* the idea for that. *smiles* Much love to you both!))
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