The Garden

The garden (or gardens) is a location that makes regular appearances in Ten's dreams throughout the course of *The Facility*. Little is currently known about the garden beyond its individual sections seen in story.

## About

The gardens first appear as a beautiful, lush green place with high garden hedges and prickly green grass. The skies of the garden are often orange, indicating a sunset setting. This turns out to be a constant factor every time the gardens pop up in Ten’s dreams, with the only current variance being in Chapter 51 where Ten saw strange red flashes (the cause of which remains unknown) in the sky before entering a ballroom area.

The garden’s other most consistent factor is its maze, which Ten often wakes up in when her dreams begin, and regularly traverses before coming upon a new location within its many turns. As with the sky, there is only one variance which comes in Chapter 78, where the maze is actually the white walls of the facility at first until Ten manages to take control of the dream to some degree, and winds up back in the garden setting.

The atmosphere of the gardens is fairly warm and still, with no extreme weather or temperature to speak of. Ten has often considered the area beautiful, if mysterious. Going off of Ten’s dreams, it seems the garden has various locations within it that all play a role in or have bearing on events or Ten’s thoughts in the story. The real garden’s full layout is unknown.

Initially, the area was not considered a key location until later on, when it appeared in Ten’s dreams for a second time.

## Appearances

* Chapter 22: Rest Ten - Dream (Gazebo + Wedding Area)
* Chapter 51: Closer (Ballroom)
* Chapter 78: Rest Thirty Two - Revitalize ( White-Walled Maze + Rose Garden)
* Chapter 83: Deeper (Ballroom + Hallway)
* Chapter 86: Visit Thirty Five - Incubi (Ballroom + Rose Garden)

## Known Locations

### Gazebo

The first location Ten comes across is a gazebo, which she does not know by name and only refers to as a “white structure” The area isn’t extremely large, but mostly empty and connected to other lines of the maze. In her first dream, Ten awakes in the garden maze and is picked up and guided toward the Gazebo by Nathaniel and Jonathan. There, Ten finds Mom, Sven, and Jude sitting at a table under the gazebo. Milos and Gale join afterward once they take a shortcut through the maze by cutting through its bushes.
The gazebo is the only area not explicitly referred to again for any important reason.
### Wedding Area

The wedding area featured in the first dream is essentially a large open patch of grass within a square of the bush maze that has a concrete path leading to a flat stage. In Ten’s dream, this area was used for her own wedding with Yosuke, with several of her friends and several of the doctors spectating. Eight acted as a ringbearer, ferrying a cuff restraint seen in the facility to Yosuke so that he could pass it to Ten.
Notably, Ten seems to know that what she’s seeing in her dream isn’t entirely like a real wedding, noting a lack of an altar, chairs with friends and family, nor any formality at all. This establishes that she has some understanding of what a wedding looks like, and initially, it was assumed that this was because she had attended a wedding at some point in person, or seen it in media.
### Ballroom

The ballroom made its appearance the second time Ten dreamt of the gardens. At first, she traversed the familiar maze until happening upon some kind of mansion-esque building with vines on the wall and a stepping stone pathway, grand windows, and large glassy doors with ornate golden handles. The entrance led to the ballroom, a place decorated with a maroon carpet floor, white and gold interior, a wooden dance floor, and tables with white cloth lining the edges of the center floor.
Notably, The Overseer and Lucius are seen at the tables, while Mom and Yosuke engage in a dance on the floor while talking. While at first Ten is invisible to all bodies in the room while the latter two doctors talk, she is eventually approached and threatened by Lucius before waking up.
In Chapter 83, more of the ballroom is seen, particularly a large set of double doors with metal doorknobs, a large mirror, and a long hall leading to a room, both which Ten struggles to go down or into. She hears both The Overseer and Lucius' voices in her dream as they hover over her unconscious body, and in Chapter 86, Ten also hears a loud noise coming from that direction. However, she is never able to go to the hall even when she tries.
### Rose Garden

The rose garden is an area discovered later on in the story as Ten’s frustrations with memory heighten. At first, she awakes in a white-walled maze rather than the familiar garden one, but soon forces herself to shake the image of white walls until the scene changes. Ten is left again in the garden maze and tries to climb the bushy walls out of frustration. Upon falling on her back, she notices a new area behind where she woke up, and finds that it’s a beautiful alcove harboring a stone bench, and dotted with pink rose bushes that surround a fountain in the center. When she attempts to step into the rose garden, Ten hears a presence behind her and wakes up.
The garden recurs a few more times in Ten's dreams, eventually coming paired with Yosuke who often tries to stop her from remembering her past or trying to remember. In Chapter 86, Ten even shows up in the rose garden dressed in the lavender gown she drew in Chapter 78, and though she feels a familiarity with it, she also feels purely alienated from herself when she sees her own reflection in the water of the nearby fountain.
## Presence of Other Characters

Most doctors in the story have presented themselves in the garden dreams, save for Micah, Lilah, and Monica. None of these three aside from Lilah (briefly) has ever popped up in any of Ten’s dreams.

Only a few Numbers have shown up in the garden, but primarily in the first dream. Cyrus, Six, Nine, and Eight were all present for it since those were the only doctor-Number associations Ten had been able to make at the time. However, beyond Mom, Sven, Gale, and Yosuke, Ten also saw other doctors she had formally met by that point, such as Jude, Milos, Nathaniel, and Jonathan.

In her dream of the ballroom, Ten wound up also seeing The Overseer and Lucius, and this was their first time showing up in her mind. Yosuke and Mom were present as well, having a dance while Ten overheard their real-life conversation, likely in the office or some private room within it, in her sleep. Lucius and The Overseer both remained still at a table throughout the dream, though Lucius wound up threatening Ten later with his gun, while she pleaded for his mercy.

It’s unknown whether the presence of the other characters in the garden areas specifically is of significance to Ten in any way. More often than not, she tends to dream of things she’s seen while at the facility, but it’s been speculated that there are instances where certain interactions with her dream versions of these characters has significance, particularly as it pertains to her reaction to Lucius in the ballroom dream.

## Link to Ten's Memory

The gardens play a prominent role in Ten’s psyche and, potentially, her memory. Just *how* the garden dream pertains to Ten’s memory is not entirely clear, other than that the garden is a place she has likely seen before. Initially, Ten brushed the images of this place off as simply having been conjured by her, perhaps from scenery in a movie or that she’s seen elsewhere rather than firsthand. As the story goes on, however, she starts to make the connection that this place is important to her somehow. Unfortunately, she seems unable to remember it no matter how hard she tries to.

One of the first major events to solidify Ten's real-world link to the gardens is her interview with The Overseer, after her first dose of Mnemosyne. In Chapter 60, Ten watches a video feed of her interview, in which she was asked to make word associations and chose key words associated with the imagery that would later become prominent in her dream, such as “garden” (a place), “sunset” (a word), and “white” (a color). While Ten in the main story initially associated her saying the word “white” with her immediate surroundings in the facility, it’s possible this also had something to do with a wedding dress, or some other relative imagery.

### The Wedding

The wedding was at first simply a representation of Ten’s torment over being attached to Yosuke, with Eight, his previous Number, “passing the torch” to her, so to speak. Though this instance of the garden was only associated with this conflict, it later proved to have more importance later as Ten realized that the places she dreamt about in the garden were likely associated with her memory.
In Chapter 57, after a sexual encounter with Cyrus, Ten suddenly seems to remember and verbalizes a list of wedding vows after one of Cyrus’ sentences ends with the phrase “to have and to hold”. This acted as a trigger of some sort, and while the vows themselves are still mysterious, this instance made it clear that the wedding dream Ten had was likely of some significance to her. While Cyrus tried to help her brush off this issue knowing it wouldn’t benefit her to struggle over it, later on in the story, it becomes apparent that the memory of these vows is not just from something random. Speculations are that she either attended a wedding, or was married.
Yosuke seems to occasionally tease Ten with phrases related to marriage as well, especially post-confinement. In Chapter 68, he mentions the phrase “‘til death do us part”, all while Ten is dressed in white. This only flusters and confuses her. It’s currently unknown whether he has chosen to say these things to her with a purpose, or just as a means to tease his Number with whom he’s infatuated with. He seems especially intrigued by the idea of Ten as a bride, whenever the subject of weddings comes up.
when Ten once asked whether he’d been to a wedding before out of intrigue after the incident with Cyrus, Yosuke only told Ten he’d been to a few before, usually out of favor or obligation if not explicitly for family reasons. This does not give indication on whether or not Yosuke has bearing on Ten’s memory or the wedding imagery, but fans have speculated that he has some involvement.
### The Ballroom

The ballroom scene between Yosuke and Mom isn’t exactly of importance to Ten given that it was simply her overhearing a conversation in her sleep, but the scenery itself is of note. Its affiliation to her memory is unclear, but since almost every other area of the gardens seems to have some bearing on Ten, it’s likely the ballroom does too, and its overall appearance probably comes from memory.
As stated in the *Presence of Other Characters* section, The Overseer and Lucius’ presences in the ballroom dream could also be of significance, but it’s not certain. There is speculation that the pleading interaction Ten had with Lucius when he was threatening to kill her was not just a fabricated scenario. This is backed by the fact that Ten seems to recognize Lucius the first time she meets him, and it’s confirmed later on in Chapter 60 by The Overseer that Lucius had to do with her kidnapping. While he also stated she more than likely recognized him because she’d seen Lucius again later too (during the interview), it’s still possible her initial memory of him has bearing on Ten now.
### The Rose Garden

Little is currently known about the rose garden, yet it appears to have united many themes surrounding Ten: The pink of the roses mimicking Ten’s color, the flowers by name being what Yosuke calls her, and the strange presence all have weight here.
Later on in Chapter 80, Yosuke draws the familiar image of a rosebush that Ten saw in her dream, despite not having known she dreamt of it at all. This revelation has led most people to presume either he knew her personally before the facility, or had met her once before, but nothing is currently confirmed at the moment.
### Dahlia

Ten's problems with her dreams become even more complicated once Dahlia's voice gets involved after the incident in Chapter 80 wherein Ten's forced attempt to bring up a memory only results in intense pain and a blackout.
Ten does not know who she is despite trying, though Lucius eventually reveals Dahlia's name in Chapter 83 and explains to Ten that she knew her (if by another name). No matter how often she tries, Ten cannot remember the woman, however she starts to show a strong emotional response to her voice after a few times of hearing it. Often, she is desperate to go to Dahlia and wants to see her face. She also feels intense misery knowing that Dahlia is likely dead, something that she pieces together both through The Overseer's words, and her own intuition.
Ten cannot garner what the dreams she has means beyond later understanding that the garden is likely linked to her past. She tends to get further confused by the fact that things that she experiences while at the facility often pop up in her dreams, so she is never fully able to garner what is and is not part of her previous life. She eventually starts to see Yosuke in her dreams as well, particularly in the rose garden, but occasionally in the ballroom as well. While at first he was seen dancing with Mom, he also antagonizes Ten in the rose garden and refuses to let her see Dahlia when Ten hears her voice.
The first time Yosuke appears in the area in Chapter 83, Milos' assault on her bleeds into her dream enough for Ten to dream it's Yosuke assaulting her instead. When he appears again, he is dancing with her in the ballroom, then suddenly standing with her in the rose garden. While the version of Yosuke she dreams of is not wholly unlike him, he tends to reflect a lot of her opinions, both conscious and subconscious, on him through what he says. Often, he restricts her from exploring her dream, and like his real self, often holds her hostage under the guise of keeping her safe from the consequence of remembering. However, he does seem to assure Ten that even with her fragmented dreams, she can piece much more together than she realizes, and that the only problem is that she struggles to see it.