"Bloom? Like a flower?" She asked quizzically, one eyebrow raised at the unorthodox word choice.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfO7DDUat4
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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.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTxE2BVBUw
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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.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmG5dn6ZVtp
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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.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrSxV25tSK
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*The Era of Hope was the sixth age of Empyrea.*79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnmAGqEM0bo
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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 examination79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy1qxDCuXuA
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to be a mix of heart failure - caused by a cardiac glycoside called Convallatoxin - and suffocation.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfG9DjHumkf
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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.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDBithPwuP
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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.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCC03A0ldUg
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"To answer the only question that ever matters...why." He replied mysteriously.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cgCrXpOgb
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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.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvViLSM9iih
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"I meant why they did it like this...what do these flowers mean?"79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Zb0M8aFJw
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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.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEuNscOajW
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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.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8mtGoGdnRw
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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."79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdqWJBYIWe
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"Aquiloria won't be forgetting Operations Bloom and Chancellor anytime soon," Petal assured him.79Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5RAJffRZvR
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Although, she wasn't sure she believed it herself.8964 copyright protection75ＰＥＮＡＮＡHHEu4hoMO4 維尼

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