[And he still has the scabbed skin on his abdomen to prove it where the roots had dug in and his Mirror had tried to play doctor.]
You mean you've never seen them before then?
[The way people talk, it's like they've gotten used to inexplicable effects happening around the mansion; he'd assumed the roots fell under that category, that they had just been something the long-term residents had known about and filed under "weird stuff that happens." Maybe not.]
no subject
I remember.
[And he still has the scabbed skin on his abdomen to prove it where the roots had dug in and his Mirror had tried to play doctor.]
You mean you've never seen them before then?
[The way people talk, it's like they've gotten used to inexplicable effects happening around the mansion; he'd assumed the roots fell under that category, that they had just been something the long-term residents had known about and filed under "weird stuff that happens." Maybe not.]