Exactly the opposite of our present situation, then.

[All veg plants, no neighbors.

Or, at least, no neighbors within the garden. Avalon was but an island in the Reverse Side of the World: were Watanuki able to stray beyond its borders, he'd find an assortment of fairies, dragons, spirits, and other phantasmals that had taken refuge after the Age of the Gods ended and its influence faded away.]

Would you like to take an hour to settle in? Or shall we continue in our tour of the Tower?

[If Watanuki agreed to taking a break, Merlin would go on a very brief trip to dreamland and make arrangements: the mention of vegetables did remind him that Watanuki had a functioning human body, and he wasn't quite built or even trained to subsist on magical energy. And while Merlin could techincally conjure food, he'd pass: should Watanuki's idle dreams become snack material, Merlin would rather not have his own magic somehow influence that.

Of course, if Watanuki would rather explore the tower more, Merlin could postpone that other talk to later.]