text: > Go downward
  You carefully hang from one of the lower branches and drop to the greenhouse floor below.
  
  Greenhouse (Petter Sjölund)
  Nothing should be growing here anymore — the heating and irrigation have been off for years — but roots seem to have covered everything.
  
  The walls curve inward, forming a huge dome, with a mesh of roots covering it from the floor up to about halfway to the ceiling. Sunlight still breaks through in places, throwing a pattern of bright spots across the room. The roots grow from an enormous tropical tree at the center of the greenhouse, towering all the way up to the ceiling, which it hides behind a thick crown of leaves.
  
  A spiral staircase, seemingly woven of roots, leads to a circular mesh walkway higher up along the wall.
  
  The parrot sculpture protrudes from the roots near the exit.
  
  > Close beak
  The sculpture has no moving parts. Its mouth is less than an inch deep.
  
  > get Eyes
  The eyes are firmly set in the statue. You can't get them out.
  
  > Kiss parrot
  There is a slight trembling in the sculpture at your display of affection. Or did you just imagine it? Somehow you feel a desire for cleansing emanating from the parrot.
  
  > cut the lichen
  As you scrape off some mold, it turns into a cloud of spores.
  
  > Cut fungus
  There is too much mold to scrape it all off.
  
  > ascend
  You hold onto one of the more sturdy-looking branches and carefully move toward the tree at the center of the room.
  
  Greenhouse (Petter Sjölund) (up the tree)
  You're on one of the thick lower branches of the tree. The strangler fig roots cover the host tree completely. A sturdy, root-covered branch has grown into the walkway circling the greenhouse.
  
  > go upwards
  You climb higher up the tree.
  
  Greenhouse (Petter Sjölund) (higher up the tree)
  You are among the murkier branches higher up the tree. Trying your best not to look down, it is still obvious that you would not survive a fall from this height. Here, gaps between the strangler fig roots reveal the original host tree, which looks like an African fern pine. Through a small hole in the host tree, you can see the strangler fig growing like a spinal cord through its hollow trunk. The tree continues upwards.
  
  > look at the vinegar
  A gallon jug of white vinegar. The label is fairly faded but part of it reads, "Possible uses: cleaning appliances such as coffee makers, dishwashers, and washing machines, making hardboiled eggs easier to shell, deodorant, and pouring it on hard-to-pull weeds in your driveway to kill them."
  
  A faint smell of mildew emanates from it.
  
  > Go upward
  You climb even higher up the tree.
  
  Greenhouse (Petter Sjölund) (even higher up the tree)
  Up here the tree is more like a thicket of thin, sharp, dead twigs, with flowering roots spiraling between them. There are some huge bones among the twigs and leaves — the skeleton of some prehistoric aquatic beast once mounted here, suspended from the ceiling by metal wires, now twisted and broken by the relentless growth of the tree. It seems possible to climb still higher from here.
  
  > Go upward
  You climb still higher up the tree.
  
  Greenhouse (Petter Sjölund) (top of the tree near the ceiling)
  The entire treetop sways from your weight, up and down, this way and that. You are close enough to the glass ceiling to see the blue sky and bright sunshine outside.
  
  Something is hidden behind the tightly woven branches and leaves here.
  
  > Search branches
  (the tightly woven branches and leaves)
  Is there some kind of cage hidden behind there? You are not sure.
  
  > cut the branches
  (the tightly woven branches and leaves)
  You cut through the branches with the machete. As the leaves fall away, a human-size birdcage, suspended from the ceiling, is revealed.
  
  > examine Cage
  It is a wrought-iron cage, large enough to fit a human. It is closed with a small latch. Through the bars you see what looks like a bird's nest.
  
  > open Cage
  You open the door. A bird's nest made of dry twigs fills the bottom of the cage. It is full of broken eggshells and small bird bones. Hidden among the bones is a strangely clean and intact small cardboard box.
  
  > examine the cardboard
  It's labeled "Vacuum Component".
  
  > get it
  You reach in through the birdcage door. As soon as your hand closes around the cardboard box, it seems to get darker outside. You hear a distant sound as from a thousand squawking birds, and it is getting louder.
  
  There is a huge crash and sharp pieces of glass shower down all around you. Then the air is full of parrots. A pandemonium of red-eyed albino parrots, thousands of them, circling through the greenhouse like the water in a washing machine. They land on your back and in your hair, wherever you can't wave them off. Their sharp beaks peck at your skin, pinching it, pulling it, going for your eyes —
  
  When you open your eyes you are on your back on the greenhouse floor, feeling your clothes soaking up blood. The parrots land on you and around you, their talons and beaks tearing into your flesh, but as you try to wave them off, you find that you are unable to lift a finger. The pain is unimaginable, yet you cannot make a sound, not even as one of them pecks out your eye.
  
  > examine nest
  A bird's nest made of dry twigs fills the bottom of the cage. It is full of broken eggshells and small bird bones. Hidden among the bones is a strangely clean and intact small cardboard box.
  
  > cut Cage
  You strike the side of the cage. It sways away on its steel wire. A yellow cloud of spores billows up, dense enough to make you cough and your eyes run. But the cage itself seems unaffected.