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Leaving the East tower of Castle Yeog'il'rymmin you cross the ground level bridge over the murky, black moat. Ahead of you, your view of the massive cavern is blocked by a large, dome-like structure. It's high, curving walls are made of a strange greenish rock and it's temperature is warm to the touch. Stepping through the nearest doorless entry your eyes behold a splendid sight! The greens stone on the inside of the dome walls are glowing with magic. The light is soft and the air is warm and sweet with the scent of many flowers and herbs. Wide walk ways lead around the room, passing between flower beds. Each bed is filled with various plant life, all sustained by the power in the magic of the light green walls. Most of the herbs are recognizable as having special qualities. Healing plants, aphrodisiacal stimulants, poisonous flowers and counter poisons. Even herbs to help a woman through pregnancy. But the two central plant beds are filled with roses of every kind. Their colors range the rainbow and their fragrance perfumes the tepid air like the breezes of some distant heaven. Then northern most central planter is full of tiny saplings. Little tree buds that have barely broken through the earth and will someday be taken and planted in the East Gardens.
Leaving the Arboretum through the north exit you don't have to walk far before you come to a wall of hedges. The loveliest little, white flowers dot the hedge walls, with the sweetest scent of night blooming jasmine. A stone walkway leads you right into the southern end of the East Gardens, which holds a vast collection of night blooming flowers and plants that have been enchanted to thrive in the dimness of the Ched Nasad caverns. Ahead of you large old trees rustle softly in an underground breeze, and to either side of you, you can see a second hedge wall that parallels the outer one along with the elder trees. You simply wander on through the trees and you'll come into the garden beds. Oh what a sight that is! The most beautiful array of flowers, exotic and traditional alike, spread out in front of you. Little pathways lead all over the place through out the gardens, giving you the closest look you'd want at each section. And in each section you can find something different, something unique from all the other beds.
As you wander among the plots of flowers and trees you soon come to the garden's center: A mammoth fountain, it's water shimmering with an unnatural light, dominates the center. Red fire lilies and glowing water orbs float about in the water, listlessly bobbing over the tiny waves of the pool. The fountain itself is several meters tall and sculpted in a towering design. It's eerie bluish glow gives a gentle, but magical ambiance to the surrounding gardens, leaving you with the feeling of being in a truly enchanted place.
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