At the center of the garden is a fiercely seething pool of thick dark liquid. It's bordered by a rim of something rather like glass, but with strange rainbowed reflections. Four channels lead from the pool, out through the garden, to northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest, feeding the garden. The water seems to flow through the rim into these channels, and what runs away from the pool is changed, no longer dark. The channels leading northeast and southwest are filled with clear water. The ones running northwest and southeast are filled with red blood.

You might notice that the fountain nearest the pool (fashioned like a spreading tree itself) is distinguished from the rest, just in a very subtle way: there are five small objects in the basin, under the liquid.

Mithos is standing by the pool, looking down into it. He appears the same as in Aather, but he's covered in scars and a couple of visible fresh gashes on his arms. There's an odd internal light to him too; something white and bright and steady.