and as always browncoat had to take the back door and brave the fire escape , for the air in the well-lit wooden room had become suffused with microscopic , anatomically corrected shards of glass and was hardly breathable ; and browncoat sought well-vascularised leaves that were not born with a destiny of ash within them , leaves that could grow old and boring as parachuting churches and wormfood and cluttered sewage and worse , bookmarks .