"Bloom? Like a flower?" She asked quizzically, one eyebrow raised at the unorthodox word choice.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueAbkQtydv
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Bloom can be used as an intransitive verb meaning to bear a flower or flowers and alternatively as meaning to appear or come into being suddenly.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzkIRsxbzap
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In Empyrea, bloom now had a new, sinister undertone. Flowers blooming would normally evoke images of spring or rebirth. Not anymore.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8OZ5GOudu
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It had changed when the Spring of the eighty-seventh year of Hope*, Aiko Petal - Master Adept of Floriculture, Floriography, and Botany - had been urgently summoned by Meritocrat Mylo of Artè after an abhorrent discovery: The BCU had kindly left the Aquilorians a...gift.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyoG7d14hmY
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*The Era of Hope was the sixth age of Empyrea.*86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGB0vqPEUa
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The Meritocrats of Æno, Academi, Adepto, Adhoma, Alerie, Azuri, Divitiae, Merita, Mezaik, Vorde, and Wyrai (every city in the Southeast of Empyrea apart from Artè large enough to be represented on the Meritocratic Council) had all been found dead with flowers growing in their lungs. The cause of death had been determined by a postmortem examination86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMKcIyQIcW
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to be a mix of heart failure - caused by a cardiac glycoside called Convallatoxin - and suffocation.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUHNeAKdyfE
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The culprit was a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring that were native to Umbracrest and some parts of Northern Cerulea. Lily of the Valley or Convallaria majalis.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEI23nQaj2
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"Why have I been called here, Meritocrat Mylo?" The Master Adept asked innocently. It was a reasonable question, Floriography students weren't taken particularly seriously even by the Academy of the Adept. The Adeptus Floricultural had supposedly been mentally feeble, something that was most likely not true.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34Ch1U3jMH
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"To answer the only question that ever matters...why." He replied mysteriously.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xFm6w9K1A
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"Do you mean why they did this? That's easy: the BCU wanted to paralyse the Aquilorian regional government." She responded quietly, staring with wide eyes at the agonised corpses of the Meritocrats in shock.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIp08TSix4N
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"I meant why they did it like this...what do these flowers mean?"86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBv2iC1sSnE
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Airko Petal had studied the art of floriography - communication with flowers - and was a leading expert in the symbolism behind them.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8p3cVgEM9E
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"What it might have meant from anyone else," She mused, " Is sweetness, humility, purity; returning happiness." She paused. When she spoke again her face had darkened, "What this means is that we are being mocked; there is nothing sweet about the immense pain Chairman Hessen has caused just to send Aquiloria a snide message. Our best and brightest, all dead from flowers..." She lamented, overwhelmed by the senseless slaughter.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrnTi6TLk5k
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"First Chancellor Nazarene was found dead and now this," Mylo whimpered quietly, suppressed rage seeping into his words and making them wobble, "It can't go unpunished."86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhroNu2PjA0
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"Aquiloria won't be forgetting Operations Bloom and Chancellor anytime soon," Petal assured him.86Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAhXqFPfGkh
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Although, she wasn't sure she believed it herself.8964 copyright protection82ＰＥＮＡＮＡYc0hHc7viC 維尼

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