Healer's Hollow
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Deep within a fae forest within the Hedge lies this tree. The branches shimmer with starlight along with the perpetually star-lit sky with a too-big moon. Inside are items one would find in any home. A downy bed with pillows, a kitchen that also includes a magically-chilled cabinet, but it also has a few fanciful things, such as a bookshelf filled with books that were imagined but never written. The weather and sky can be shaped according to the holder's whims, from a snowy winter wonderland to a night's sky with beautiful stars.
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Lighting within the hollow is rather schizophrenically and haphazardly provided by a mixture of mundane human lighting, bioluminescent moss that behaves almost like a clapper that can be dimmed by speaking aloud, or strange glowing fireflies the size of a fist that respond to the owner's wishes and can glow brightly enough to light up a room.
Hollows
A Fae's Hollow is a secret, private bit of real estate inside The Hedge. It may be something like a closet door that opens into a quiet, hollowed-out tree, or as elaborate as a secret, specific knock that opens any unlocked door into a lavish, Gothic mansion. These are pockets of personal or inherited reality that have been trimmed of the local Hedge Thorns. With few exceptions such as the knock mentioned before, these faerie safe houses are tied to a single, consistent physical entrance, but being part of the Hedge means they don't have to conform to an available space. Few modern conveniences work in the hedge due to it's extremely magical, dream-like nature, but it's not uncommon to find crystalline televisions that play unaired, unrecorded, or even unplanned episodes of canceled TV shows (including Firefly) by drawing on people's imaginations or iceboxes full of Coca Cola off-brands that were never actually produced. Even something the Fae call Route Zero, a stretch of mundane road that intersects the Hollow. This is usually used as an entry, for example when Hansel and Gretel walk through the forest trail and end up at the Witch's house.
"Rooms":
Garden:
A large outdoor garden full of strange, alien plants, from leaves that are shaped like brass cogs that can replace a missing component of any mortal device from computers and cellphones to an engine component as long as that component is hidden from sight, root that holds blood instead of water as a treat for vampires, to mint leaves that cause comforting hallucinations when made into a tea. Some of this garden is within a few small greenhouses, each with their own environment for those more temperamental plants.
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Lake:
A small lake, or perhaps a giant pond. Either way, this is where he grows aquatic plants such as Coralscalp kelp, though the lake can also be spoken into, naming the person you wish to speak to and allowing the user to 'video call' a target through any reflective surface, though it can also work on modern smart phones. Many mirrors within the home also function this way.
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Kitchen:
Stocked with wonderous fare both fae and human, from fruits from the outside garden to simple frozen pizzas and the like within its enchanted ice chest and fridge, just don't be alarmed by the steady 'thump-thump, thump-thump, that's just the motor that cycles the chilling magic. Includes things such as a cooler containing imaginary off-brands of human soda like "Prof. Salt" in lovely flavors like "Tang of Blood", which is really just Tang that tastes a little bit of pennies, or a spigot that funnels fresh faerie honey right from the hive of hedge-bees that feed on sweet dreams within the branches. Also contains a small glass decanter that can fill with a random hedge beverage, always guaranteed to be tasty, even if not quite to the drinker's personal preferences, from a bitter chartreuse to a sweet hedge-nectar mead. Often alcoholic, they can also produce effects of many other drugs, usually those with euphoric effects so drinker beware. One glass is one dose.
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Dining Room:
An elegant dining room just off the kitchen with room for 12 people. This table has a magical property: When a tablecloth is placed upon it and the name of the guests are said, one at a time, when the tablecloth is whipped away, in its place shall be a feast both fae and human. While it is entirely random what will be served, and it may not even appear appetizing, it will always be delicious if only tried. Usually Toski prefers to cook himself so that he has some control over the meal, but still handy.
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Library:
Located closer to the top of the tree, a large library and observatory can be found. Within are bookshelves all over the walls, each full of nests of giant, fluffy Pagefinder moths about cat-sized, each acting as living book. If you say the name of a book you want or the information within it, the appropriate moth will flutter down to sit in your lap so you can read from its wings, which they find pleasurable, though they won't say no to head-pets.
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Living Room:
Located near the base of the tree just next to the dining room, the first room you enter when you head through the door. Contains a large cushy couch that can recline, a crystaline TV that can play things the watcher will find engaging, but rarely actual shows produced in Ironside, though it can also play shows imagined but never made, such as further seasons of Firefly. Also includes a small fireplace, a wooden table, and some modern lighting embedded in the wood of the walls.
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Bed Room:
Mostly the Master bedroom, but some features are replicated in the guest rooms, such as each containing a Dream Chaise, a supernaturally comfortable bed stuffed with hedge-bird feathers that guarantees extremely potent, and occasionally oracular, dreams, never nightmares. While only the main bedroom has a double-bed and its own bathroom with a calling-mirror, the halls with the guest rooms, have a bathroom or two themselves. The rooms are enough to house up to 8 people. Each room also includes a "Twin Chest", a wardrobe that manifests items of clothing the person that opens it has either worn before or seen worn, though each recreation includes a minor flaw or offset item, such as a tag in the wrong place, differently-colored buttons, or a sleeve slightly too long. Not enough to hamper actually wearing them, but enough to be readily visible as knock-offs.
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Storage:
Located in the basement among the roots, jars of fruit set to pickle and bottles of faerie wine are among the many things stored down here, much of it edible, including the bioluminescent moss on the walls used for lighting which tastes of roast marshmallows and gooey chocolate. If it needs to be kept away from sunlight or must be stored long-term, expect it to be found down here.
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The Theater Of You:​
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A room with about a few dozen or so seats that alter themselves to suit the user. After walking up the ramp, there's a 360 degree movie screen made of hundreds of pieces of individual folded paper fused to the wall that usually display a single image together like a giant movie screen, but are capable of folding up and showing individual images as well.
Each person sees their own personalized movie, events from their lives dramatized as the protagonist of their own story, their highest highs, their lowest lows, putting all the events of their lives in beautiful, terrible clarity and perspective. A crack addict might see their wonderful highs and desire a hit, only to see their slow, tragic spiral down, down, down, bringing them to tears at seeing just how low the drug has brought them, harming them and everyone they care about, and rendered them determined to recover, the image burned into their mind of where they were headed if they kept on the path. Someone who rose from poverty to success might see an opposite tale, starting with tragedy and rising triumphantly and proudly like a glorious and hopeful crescendo while still reminding them that there are plenty of people who still endure and need help.
The one thing all movies have in common: The theater does not lie. All events are truthful, if dramatized a bit for the sake of entertainment. It makes every tragic moment all the more like a punch to the gut, every happy moment like a beautiful hug, and makes the purpose of the theater all the more powerful: To show who you are through the light of your actions and experiences, to put your life into perfect clarity for the individual.
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