"Bloom? Like a flower?" She asked quizzically, one eyebrow raised at the unorthodox word choice.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCrdpuLrAZ
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwLczfq7RHm
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoPL9KRxSV
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz6GLpow420
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*The Era of Hope was the sixth age of Empyrea.*36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpR9hNZXbx8
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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 examination36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrymWmH3r2k
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to be a mix of heart failure - caused by a cardiac glycoside called Convallatoxin - and suffocation.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuEEwtR3zy
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpVYZmxPQB6
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEpriTlmaVV
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"To answer the only question that ever matters...why." He replied mysteriously.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDL1DWO8Oc
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFVTeRZ3pv1
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"I meant why they did it like this...what do these flowers mean?"36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQvj4TO50Bv
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlXsts1Bi5f
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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.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GqDMYVpWO
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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."36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lKP1poiwZ
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"Aquiloria won't be forgetting Operations Bloom and Chancellor anytime soon," Petal assured him.36Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcpJvowIHd
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Although, she wasn't sure she believed it herself.
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