As the Gardener of the Fallen continues to tend to the flowers here, the Ashen Company ask more about the statue. The Gardner explains it was a symbol of his goddess, however - no matter how hard he tries, the statue cannot be repaired. Lotty and Silas help the Gardener clean the statue and after a basic mending cantrip, Lotty sees the issue with the statue Falling straight into disrepair at the moment after it's mended.
Flynn asks the Gardener of the Fallen what went wrong in his cycle and the gardener explains there was too much indecision. His people were innocent, wandering the lands whilst the powers-that-be from his cycle failed to take any action to save themselves. The Gardener was provided this garden in recognition of his people's innocence.
The Ashen Company asked Gardner if he knows the way to leave however the gardener isn't convinced that the Ashen Company will be safe outside of his garden and insist that they stay for their own safety. When the Ashen Company explained this isn't an option for them, the Gardner insists on knowing what their plan is to defeat or change the mind of the One Who Watches but isn't satisfied with their answer. As ever, the action companies good-intentions-bad-plans methodology impresses no one.
Flynn is feeling the indecision and lack of action in this situation and when the gardener unsheathes his sword, albeit not raised, Flynn decides now is the time for action. Flint starts to shoot out Eldridge blasts hitting various statues and even a few flowers (even though that probably wasn't his intention) to make the point that this gardener should let us leave. The Gardner doesn't see it that way and a fight breaks out between the two of them, the rest of the Ashen Company is reluctant to get involved not wanting this situation to end in bloodshed and when Flynn is on his last legs; the Gardener relents hoping a lesson has been learned.
The Gardener approaches Lotty, who is still pondering over the giant moon statue, there's a thing that needs to be fixed and she can't fix it. The gardener whispers in Lotty's ear that the way out has been here all along we just need to jump in and swim down the well but it's a long swim we'll need to hold our breath. Lotty asks the gardener if the statue is important to him, if it would actually mean anything to him for this statue to be repaired and he confirms how pleased he would be to have the statue restored.
Lotty announces to the rest of the group the gardener will allow them a way out but it will take some time, as they have a bit of time they may as well try to do what they can to repair the damage that they've done and leave this place better than they found it.
Flynn and Null set about doing their best to straighten up the garden, replanting what they can and cleaning up what they can't. After an identify spell tells Lotty that this statue is cursed at a high level Silas and Barrick between them managed to remove the curse from the statue. As they do the atmosphere brightens the Crescent moon restored again to its original, beautiful, stone statue. There is no longer the feel of despair in the air and Silas can fill that the land here is no longer desecrated. The Gardener rewards them by giving Lotty & Silas a seed each - The Blessing of the Gardener - an item that will allow them success against death saving throws.
Satisfied they've done a good thing, Lotty confesses her lie to the group. She isn't sorry she lied, she wanted to make sure they did a good thing but she does remember the promise of honesty within the group. Just before Berwick casts Oasis to dive into the well, Flynn takes the opportunity for one last one-to-one with the Gardner of the Fallen.
Flynn packs the urn with earth and takes some water from the well hands it to the gardener, after an sincere apology for his actions; Flynn explains that the urn used to house someone very dear to him but now that he's gone, will the Gardener look after the urn in this place that now, beautifully, seems more fitting for the dead. The gardener says that what Flynn did was cruel and unnecessary, whilst action is often needed he should think carefully about what action is taken. Looking at the urn, the gardener says that there is still life in there, and it will return in some manner once it serves it purpose. The gardener takes a little more earth and water from around him and uses it to patch the crack in the side of the urn, this time... It holds.
After diving through the well, the Ashen company find themselves back in the landscape of the end of the universe. With no logical reason to do anything else, Flynn spins in a circle and points in a direction, and that's where the Ashen Company head.
In the next representation of a cycle that the Ashen Company find themselves in; they see cathedral of sorts ahead of them, although it is surrounded with a vortex of water in a vast chasm. There is a feeling of evil coming from the chasm below but nobody can quite sense what the feeling is coming from. Deciding to tackle the cathedral first, our heroes see that the building is full of water even with cracks in the windows or missing panes the water seems to be defying physics - it is flooding the building but not pouring out. There seems to be some kind of membrane that our heroes can pass through but the water does not seep out of, with Berrick's Oasis still protecting them the Ashen Company decide to go in through a window.
Inside the cathedral, the design and the décor seem both decorative and dangerous, the structures here look somehow brutal. Our heroes head towards the large organ in the chamber, Lotty grabs a lute and with Flynn's help interpreting languages Lottie attempts to play the sheet music sitting at the organ whilst Flynn attempts to tinkle the ivory's in front of him.