"Bloom? Like a flower?" She asked quizzically, one eyebrow raised at the unorthodox word choice.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9bXL5HMWed
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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.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi0lvYJbI5S
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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.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4tNEXC47Xg
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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.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmC6fg8vcc
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*The Era of Hope was the sixth age of Empyrea.*115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbbGRMezLH
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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 examination115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhZeuconRC
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to be a mix of heart failure - caused by a cardiac glycoside called Convallatoxin - and suffocation.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXrh0D3QL6p
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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.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmA6clfvHh
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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.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjcITOSc8K
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"To answer the only question that ever matters...why." He replied mysteriously.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSdevegB7vn
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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.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76e5zaIlCc
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"I meant why they did it like this...what do these flowers mean?"115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5en4s9iDd
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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.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7RGO6MDNG
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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.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgqVfdZ3k9W
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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."115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRrhTa4Zse
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"Aquiloria won't be forgetting Operations Bloom and Chancellor anytime soon," Petal assured him.115Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡceu3WfP2RX
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Although, she wasn't sure she believed it herself.
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