fandomhighdorms | The Garden: Wednesday Early Evening

Dor ran after the flying objects, trying to keep up as best he could until he saw the tiny things dive into the ground next to what appeared to be a garden.

Then there was a popping noise followed by what Dor thought was Irene's voice shouting "GROW!"

Dor's thought was confirmed when trees and plants sprung from the ground and rapidly began to grow into full bloom. Irene must have bribed Good Magician Humfrey with something for him to bottle up her talent like that. Then again if Humfrey could put lightning in a bottle, a magical talent shouldn't be too hard to manage.

Dor immediately recongized the shoe tree and the clothes tree as the began to sprout various forms of footwear, shirts, skirts and pants. They weren't exactly what he was used to seeing but maybe since the plants took root so close to Mundania they took on some of their more recent fashions. Then there was a flannel tree also growing clothes, coats and blankets for colder weather followed by a nice fluffy pillow bush.

The next tree Dor couldn't figure out at all. Every time he looked at the trunk it seemed different and the shape would lead him to think something else and...

"Oh!" Dor said aloud and shook his head in amusement. It was a mys-tree. No one could ever figure out those things.

Dor walked around to the other side of the row of trees to find a milkweed plant with some of its pod all ready to picked for fresh milk. Next to that was a cocoa-nut tree (whose cocoa-nuts were filled with chocolate milk) a pie tree with almost every kind of pie variety you could think of and finally a...

"Cherry tree?" Dor said looking amazed. "That could be dangerous! Why would Irene send such a tree?"

Upon closer inspection Dor sighed in relief. It was only a chocolate cherry tree whose fruit had a delicious chocolate center. That was a good thing as the other variety, the cherry bomb, could have hurt someone!

Dor then picked a nice fluffy pillow, a ripe milk pod and some chocolate cherries before leaning up against the mys-tree to watch as the plants reach full maturity.

Suddenly Xanth didn't seem so far away.

[Open! Yes these are permanent additions to the garden from behind the stable and are free for people to use.]

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"Um. No," Dor said sheepishly. "The closest thing we have is Castle Roogna and the area around it which might be almost as big as the island. I've heard that cities in Mun- other places can be very big."

"Ja, much bigger than this. They are . . . they are good. Very busy. And you can get whatever you want, any time day or night."

"So can I," Dor said gesturing to the clothes tree. "I just need to come out here. And it's not that busy. What else can you do in a city?"

Lola had a couple choice words about the idea of everyone just living off bizarre plants instead of learning how to make things for themselves and supporting an economy, but she didn't have the English.

"You can go to clubs and meet people from all over."

"We don't have a lot of those types of clubs in Xanth," Dor said with a nod. "Just the ones you hit people with. Is it like where people get together and knit?"

"Knit?" Lola was moderately appalled. "Not . . . hobby-clubs. Dance clubs. Diskotheken."

"Oh! Dancing," Dor said shaking his head. "We don't have clubs like that at all. Occasionally the King and Queen will throw a ball and I have to attend. I don't dance very well and end up stepping on people's toes."

Lola wrinkled her nose and smiled. "I think that's another kind of dancing. In a Diskothek, if you step on someone's toes, it is their fault for putting their toes under your boots."

"Sounds like my kind of dancing," Dor grinned doofily.

It so wasn't his kind of dancing.

Lola grinned. "We should find a club to go to here, then."

"We have one here?" Dor asked raising his eyebrows.

"Ich weiss nicht. I haven't explored the town much, yet."

"Icky what?" Dor asked looking confused.

"Eh?" Lola blinked. "Oh. Ich weiss nicht? It means 'I don't know'. In German."

Dor blinked and then remembered some of Cherie's tutoring. Mundanians spoke in different tongues but in Xanth all language was the same.

"Sorry," Dor explained. "I've never really heard a foreign language before."

"Your world must be very small."

"Have you ever heard of Flordia?" Dor asked looking somewhat glum. "It looks like that. Only without the rest of the United States."

Lola had heard of Florida. . . . She just had no idea where it was.

"Ah."

Dor wasn't sure how to react to that... and therefore it became an awkward pause.

He mentally stumbled to try and think of something to say before pointing at a tree. "Want some pie?"

Lola eyed the tree. "Is it hot?" She didn't see how it could be.

"Well they're usually fairly warm," Dor replied as he plucked small one for himself. "But they are always fresh and quite tasty."

"Pies from trees. Do you have one that grows money? I could take a picture and send it to my dad with a message saying 'you're wrong'."

"Money?" Dor said looking confused. "No. Actually we don't have money in Xanth. We usually just trade for items we need."

Lola boggled at this. "You don't have money? But what if you don't have anything someone wants to trade?"

The Garden: Wednesday Early Evening

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