[--The trap is brief, since it's not like the basins are made of metal or that there's metal floating in the pool. Siffrin is able to remove themselves without injury (very carefully).

Close up, he can see that there are some outlines of frozen leaves.

The ice tastes mostly like ice, but also oddly like mud, even though mud isn't what's causing the darkness. Probably. Would they like to try anything else on the basins? It doesn't look like they'll get much further in the hedge maze itself -- this is the end of the line, as bristling thorns and foliage create a seeming dead end.

They're stuck with the basins and whatever they contain for now.]