"Bloom? Like a flower?" She asked quizzically, one eyebrow raised at the unorthodox word choice.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsuHqeRHlry
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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.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRLp6T1HAPc
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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.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdc4VkGJ3id
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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.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5Mrcj4aUF
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*The Era of Hope was the sixth age of Empyrea.*247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKxleKVXft
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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 examination247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2fnEHae8wU
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to be a mix of heart failure - caused by a cardiac glycoside called Convallatoxin - and suffocation.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYZohtDCvsC
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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.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSS5xZ9XoQd
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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.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLSPWPqzSO
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"To answer the only question that ever matters...why." He replied mysteriously.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7oVfHUQN76
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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.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPwlOM0mf6O
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"I meant why they did it like this...what do these flowers mean?"247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIjwJ6CDIv
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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.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGJw0KxqJY
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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.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh8Soejxwsl
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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."247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFA6IAKC3E
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"Aquiloria won't be forgetting Operations Bloom and Chancellor anytime soon," Petal assured him.247Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbTqiYXWuAz
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Although, she wasn't sure she believed it herself.
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