"Bloom? Like a flower?" She asked quizzically, one eyebrow raised at the unorthodox word choice.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPndfkEaILr
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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.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0eSZUQLzPU
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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.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqwyL0eYaS4
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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.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7EfXUBrL1I
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*The Era of Hope was the sixth age of Empyrea.*189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnVfY575cW
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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 examination189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWhIMDQ2Bjc
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to be a mix of heart failure - caused by a cardiac glycoside called Convallatoxin - and suffocation.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8v3zTgqOp
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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.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZm6SrGg3aY
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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.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37Ze8BgEk2
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"To answer the only question that ever matters...why." He replied mysteriously.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡstKqhkGdgV
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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.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6yt9HM8SJ
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"I meant why they did it like this...what do these flowers mean?"189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSWstq91r3X
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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.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfDSeimN9p
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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.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXT1vet56zQ
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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."189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuwwj7Fq0B6
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"Aquiloria won't be forgetting Operations Bloom and Chancellor anytime soon," Petal assured him.189Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwDFjz5ahw
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Although, she wasn't sure she believed it herself.8964 copyright protection185ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWYJQa19B4 維尼

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