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id: season1.soil.winter-rose-night
season: 1
tags: [heavy]
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Winter-rose blooms at night. This is, technically, slander — the rose blooms
when it blooms, and the night is when most people are asleep, and so the
night is when most people fail to see things bloom. But the slander stuck.
A flower for the people who couldn't sleep.

Someone, in this place, used to set a chair by the window in February and
wait. The wait was the thing. The flower would bloom in its own time. Most
good things were like that, until they weren't.