You will never want to leave.
The Nursery is not a single room. It is an archipelago of forgotten playrooms, each one containing a different season. In the Western Wing (which is actually south, but the girls renamed it long ago), the Floor of Spilled Tea stretches for miles. Here, immortal girls in pinafores host tea parties that have been ongoing since the Bronze Age Collapse. The tea is cold. The cakes are dust. But the conversation—about the migration patterns of imaginary tigers, about the ethics of hiding your sister’s left shoe—is the most profound you will ever hear. the immortal girls nursery travelogue
The travelogue ends here, not because there is nothing more to see, but because the girls have invited you to stay for supper. Supper is always bread and jam. The jam changes flavor based on your most secret wish. The bread is slightly burnt. You will never want to leave
There is a place not marked on any map, though every map folds toward it at the corners. It is called the Nursery, though no one here is young in the way mortals understand youth. The Immortal Girls—there are seven of them, or twelve, or perhaps three hundred, depending on which door you open—have lived so long that their childhood has become a kind of continent. In the Western Wing (which is actually south,