Bloom
## Bloom The rain tasted like rust, clinging to Elara’s tongue as she scrubbed at the grimy window of her Portland apartment. Another gray morning, another shift at The Green Thumb, a trendy plant shop where she pretended to care…
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The Bloomlands
## Echo Bloom The wind tasted of rust and regret. Elara knelt, fingers tracing the skeletal branches of a petrified oak. Its leaves hadn’t fallen. They *became* stone, smooth and grey against her palm. Ten days. That’s how long it…