#the epitomy of life on a planet where everything else was dying.

[theriverbeyond]

really struck rn by how Abigail Pent had a fern collection and Protesilaus bred flowers for a hobby. how the food on the Third house was so good that Naberious considered the canaan house fair to be gross. the idea that the other houses are living generally normal lives with plant collections and meals that regularly contained multiple food groups rlly puts a spotlight on how stark the ninth house was. nothing but black greasepaint and brown soil and white bones.