"Bloom? Like a flower?" She asked quizzically, one eyebrow raised at the unorthodox word choice.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFGnfpqX0g
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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.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINEtQMbGA7
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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.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGukkkStdEO
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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.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLInFxT8wP6
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*The Era of Hope was the sixth age of Empyrea.*103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEUDnWurXC
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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 examination103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡto7nCpnlkn
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to be a mix of heart failure - caused by a cardiac glycoside called Convallatoxin - and suffocation.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi12ObE4qaM
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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.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsWj7xvtpY
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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.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF66kXXp7pM
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"To answer the only question that ever matters...why." He replied mysteriously.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ1Ck3vK7cm
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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.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZycMU1TCmc
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"I meant why they did it like this...what do these flowers mean?"103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdhnPUcoCu
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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.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC6efpGufI8
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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.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAj5T3ZMTu9
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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."103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymwYkh74D7
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"Aquiloria won't be forgetting Operations Bloom and Chancellor anytime soon," Petal assured him.103Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2Da5ZIYqo
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Although, she wasn't sure she believed it herself.
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