WEEK 4: ITEM CONFERENCE

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[fillintheblanket]

[Quietly, under the umbrella's canopy:]

The flowers, even when they've been washed away. Names, even when they've been forgotten.

Something remembers.

[siffriend]

[ ... Heheh. A wiggle. ]

Seeds remain hidden until the spring. They don't forget their purpose to bloom.

[fillintheblanket]

[There's nothing for the umbrella to say, here, right now.

But it tilts gently in the knife's direction, its canopy opening a little more and then shutting.]