"Bloom? Like a flower?" She asked quizzically, one eyebrow raised at the unorthodox word choice.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fAWT7jajN
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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.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62Ya9fToEe
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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.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvR5BJewBL
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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.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikFpL8k4PV
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*The Era of Hope was the sixth age of Empyrea.*85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtD2ZJe3bU
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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 examination85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTH0FZKOqeF
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to be a mix of heart failure - caused by a cardiac glycoside called Convallatoxin - and suffocation.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjSO35Uo4B6
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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.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIHAZHFlmt
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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.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfeUYb10uJ
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"To answer the only question that ever matters...why." He replied mysteriously.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnrt1qobC0G
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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.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVUtfQ0fY5H
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"I meant why they did it like this...what do these flowers mean?"85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOOXx1vMloU
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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.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8SSxtN6Vs
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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.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtJkjhO5VHP
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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."85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5fzq9Cvz1D
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"Aquiloria won't be forgetting Operations Bloom and Chancellor anytime soon," Petal assured him.85Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVlxrPr2qAf
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Although, she wasn't sure she believed it herself.
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