Greenwild

The paperweight dims until it offers just enough light for Daisy to move stealthily. She and Napoleon follow the beam and move behind a curtain of vines as Craven enters the greenhouse where they are hiding. Craven instructs the fox-haired man to make sure that Daisy doesn’t sneak out of the building. Daisy believes that she is trapped until she sees a door inside the thicket of foliage. The door bears a coat of arms depicting crossed dandelions above a tree. Napoleon and Daisy slip through the door and find themselves in a vast, silent forest.

Daisy follows the paperweight’s beam to a man who is dressed in an outfit that Daisy thinks of as being part-gardener, part-soldier. He introduces himself as Captain Malarky and asks for her “grassport.” Captain Malarky recognizes Napoleon, then places Daisy in handcuffs made of vines (a practice that he cites as “Mallowmarsh policy,” stating that one “can’t be too careful in the Greenwild nowadays” (74).

Captain Malarky leads a weary Daisy toward a lively party. The revelers indicate that they are celebrating an event called Twelfth Night. Captain Malarky explains that they are now in the land of “Mallowmarsh, the finest garden in the Greenwild” (76).