Perhaps it had just fallen off a passing carriage,but none the less a grand father clock standing in the street outside of her house was unusual.
"Holly,there is some young man at the door.He asked me to give you this."
Her mother put something down on the table next to her bed.
"I wish you had the consideration of knocking,mother,instead of just barging in like this. "
"And I wish you would have the consideration of accepting Mr. Chesworths proposal.A fallen woman cannot afford to pick and choose among men asking for her hand.What an unusual plant! It must be exotic."
"I am not a fallen woman.He never once acted with impropriety,mother."
"Yet you vanished for nine months with some ships captain and have never given me an explanation for it...Holly,why do you still long for him? It's obvious he is never coming back.Oh! I must get him a plaster.The rake cut himself on the thorns."
Her mother left and a moment later she heard voices down the hall.
"......have to see about a dog....."
Holly glanced at the thing sitting atop her dressing table.Her mother was right.It was a most unusual plant.A black rose bush.She had never seen such a-
Holly ran down the hallway, nearly knocking her mother down in the process.
The grandfather clock was just beginning to vanish into atoms as she burst out into the street.
"Wait! I'm coming with you!"
It was too late.He was gone for the second time in her life.
She pushed past her mother and once she got back into her room slammed the door behind her.A chair jammed under the knob would keep her out.
When she forced her thumb into the thorn of the Herklayen Rose,the pain nearly made her faint.The alien enzymes burned like lava in her bloodstream.But she knew that somehow, somewhere,she had suffered much worse....
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