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[Glittery flowers~ so pretty~

White? White!

She's not listening...

White, wake up!

(the sound of a light thunk)

Ow! Black, what was that for?

She was worried, White. You wouldn't respond even though we both called out, several times.

...I see.

You're not saying you're weak to the flowers, are you White?

I was merely trying to make sure they were healthy.

White's weak to the flowers~

I am not!

Black, please...]

[watching Macaron.]

[on a scale of one to ten how completely lost in this reminiscence of someone else's past are you, really.]

[She has an amused smirk on her face, and seems rather fine with whatever she's seeing.]

[Maybe about a 6-7?]

[maybe she's going to let you keep getting lost in those flowers until you actually go slackjawed before she bothers to pull you out of it.]

[Thats cool--for some unfathomable reason she's trusting your judgment. Once the voices are done tho she is going to try looking away.]

[waiting to see if that even happens at all, then.]

[Are you sure you want to look away, though, Macaron? The flowers are so pretty, after all...

The voices, however, have died down to Black giggling and flying away, White grumbling and chasing after her, and Brown sighing.]

[The flowers are pretty, yes, but I live for deets and for the mission. This flower no longer has deets aside one thing... what happens if we try to gently pick it?]

[Its spell breaks when it's picked, and you're left holding this pretty flower. ...Also the fingers that picked it are now covered in a shimmery golden pollen.]

[Aha. Turning to Lace with a nod.]

It seems White has a weakness to these flowers. Black had to strike her on the head to snap her out of it.

So that explains the warning.

I wonder if they'd have said anything if they weren't susceptible to the problem themselves.

We're taking the other path on the way back, yeah?

An excellent question--if they do not know to warn us, then it serves to reason they would not have warned us.

[A nod.] Yes, the opposite path seems best.

I doubt they wouldn't have known. This is their maze.

[in other words: that wasn't what she asked.]

[when they reach the crossroads she just keeps going down the eastern path, without pause.]

[You return to the crossroads and head east.

The eastern path goes a distance before ending, at which point it turns to the north for a short distance.

At the end of the northern path, there is an iron gate with vines growing all over its bars, locked with a single lock. If you were to try to attack this lock, however, it wouldn't break no matter how much you tried. The vines are covered in little pink flowers.]

[... looking over at Macaron, for only a moment; then reaching, wordless, for the keychain around her neck. "a door", it was said, at the center of the maze.]

[attacking is an option, of course. but what if you took a key to it, instead?]

[that's beside the point if it doesn't fit, naturally enough, so - likewise naturally, the first thing she's going to do is hold the key up to the lock's keyhole and compare.]

[It appears to be the right size!]

[then unless Macaron has a good reason to say otherwise, that key's going in that lock.]

[No objections here. That's Lawyer's thing.]

[You unlock the lock. The gate swings open quietly.

For a brief moment, everyone present is engulfed in a warm, golden light. It's impossible to see anything past, but it's not painful to the eyes, anyway.

Two unfamiliar voices echo from somewhere.

Did you know that this is my favorite flower?

You've told me, yes. I like it too. It smells nice.

But it's not your favorite.

Does it have to be? I'm allowed to like things other than my favorite, right? Besides, my favorite doesn't grow here.

Hahaha. That's why I like you, my lady.

Are you coming back soon?

I hope so. I wouldn't want to leave you alone for too long, right?

I'll make sure my garden is even prettier for when you return, then!

I'll be looking forward to seeing it, my lady.

When the light dies down, past the air that has suddenly gathered a large cloud of glittering pollen, you can see that beyond the gate opens up to a clearing with a small stone bench in the center, around which grow beautiful stalks of flowers. There's no other exit aside from the one you came in.]

[she doesn't immediately make any moves to do anything about the location they seem to have found themselves in. instead, she just blinks, looking around, and settles for a couple words to take it all in:]

... I see.

It was quite illuminating... [I will just go ahead and start looking for seeds to gather.]

So that was the aforementioned Lady... It sounds as if she had a suitor.

[The flowers all have them inside them. They're little black things, no bigger than a grain of sand each.]

[That explains the bags... Time to gather them, then.]

[doing likewise.]

[the seeds go in the bag ~~or they get the hose again~~.]

[It shouldn't take too long to fill the bags. They're not huge bags, after all, and there are a looooot of flowers.]

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