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GinghamGrass
"Lie down in the gingham. The dream will find you."
-- A Noddling saying
GinghamGrass carpets the hills of The Drowsy Downs in soft checks of light and dark green, like a picnic blanket spread across the whole land. It is as soft as down underfoot, and it never makes a sound.
| Core Thread | Imagination |
| Found | The Drowsy Downs, across the slopes of the Yawning Yonder and between the patches of the Quiet Quilt |
| Known for | Its checked pattern, and the softest landing in Threadbare |
Seen from the top of a hill, GinghamGrass makes the Downs look as though someone has laid a great checked cloth over them. Each square is a patch of grass grown a shade lighter or darker than its neighbours, and the squares stay perfectly even, however much the hills rumple and roll beneath them. At dusk, which lasts longer in the Downs than anywhere else, the checks soften into lilac and blue.
GinghamGrass is the softest grass in Threadbare, and it is very hard to stay standing in it for long. When a sleeper wakes suddenly and a Noddling tumbles out of their dream, it lands, blinking and bewildered, in the GinghamGrass, which is why no Noddling has ever been hurt by a fall.
Unlike GatherGrass, GinghamGrass makes no sound at all. The Noddlings say it is listening, and it would be rude to wake anyone.
Where the Void touches the Downs and the silver frost settles, the checks of the GinghamGrass begin to run together, light into dark, until the pattern is gone and the grass is a single flat grey. A dream told aloud on that spot brings the squares back, one at a time.
- Reading the land. The checks make the Downs easy to read at a glance, and a patch where the pattern has run tells the player the Void is close.
- Restoration. Restoring a grey patch brings the checks back, square by square.
- The Drowsy Downs - the land of sleep and dreams
- Noddlings - who land in it when they tumble out of dreams
- Reverie RestWell - Keeper of the Quiet Quilt
- GatherGrass - the singing grass of the Song Sanctuaries
- The World of Threadbare - the lore, landscape and denizens of Threadbare
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