All Chapters of You Can Ask The Flowers: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

The first signs of spring arrived with a violence that shocked them both. On a morning in mid-March, when the last of the winter snow still clung to the conservatory's glass ceiling, Iris woke to find the Genesis Bloom blazing with light so intense it hurt to look at directly. The ancient plant's consciousness was practically screaming across the supernatural network, its voice carrying a mixture of triumph and terror that made her blood race."Something's happening," she gasped, shaking Damien awake with hands that trembled with more than just residual sleep. "The garden... it's changing."Through their bond, she felt his instant alertness, his immortal senses sharpening as he processed the supernatural upheaval that was transforming their sanctuary. The eternal roses, which had remained stubbornly closed since New Year's Eve, were beginning to unfurl their petals with an audible whisper that carried across the morning air. The midnight orchids, silent for weeks, suddenly burst into

The hidden chamber lay beneath the conservatory's main floor, accessed through a concealed panel that Eleanor had disguised as part of the heating system's maintenance access. Iris had discovered it purely by accident three weeks earlier, following the increasingly urgent whispers of a plant whose voice seemed to call from somewhere deep within the earth itself. Now, as she descended the narrow stone steps with Damien close behind her, she felt the weight of Eleanor's greatest secret pressing down upon them both.The air grew thick with supernatural energy as they moved deeper underground, the walls themselves seeming to pulse with a rhythm that matched the beating of her heart. Ancient symbols had been carved into the stone, their meanings lost to time but their power still tangible in the way they made her skin tingle with recognition. Eleanor had built this chamber not just as a hiding place, but as a sanctuary where the most dangerous of her experiments could be conducted away fro

The first sign of her arrival was the sudden silence that fell over the garden like a shroud. Every plant, every flower, every blade of grass ceased its whispered communication in the same instant, as if the very air had become too thick to carry their voices. Iris felt the absence like a physical blow, the comforting chorus of botanical consciousness that had become her constant companion suddenly severed, leaving her standing in Eleanor's conservatory with nothing but the sound of her own heartbeat."She's here," Damien said, his voice carrying a weight of dread that made her blood run cold. Through their growing bond, she could feel his terror, raw and primal in a way that spoke of ancient traumas and carefully buried memories. "After all these years, she's finally come for me."The temperature in the conservatory plummeted so rapidly that Iris's breath began to mist, the supernatural cold seeping through the glass walls like liquid ice. The Genesis Bloom's luminous petals flickere

The second day brought with it a horror that surpassed even Iris's darkest imaginings. She woke to find the conservatory transformed into something that resembled a battlefield more than a garden, with the supernatural corruption having spread through the night like a plague unleashed upon paradise. The Genesis Bloom, which had provided steady illumination for months, now flickered with the dying gasps of ancient consciousness, its luminous petals blackened at the edges as if touched by invisible flames."It's accelerating," Damien said, his voice carrying the hollow exhaustion of someone who had spent the night fighting battles on multiple fronts. Dark circles shadowed his eyes, and his usually perfect posture spoke of supernatural strength pushed to its limits. "The blight isn't just killing the plants anymore. It's consuming their very essence, their accumulated decades of magical energy."Through her connection to the dying garden network, Iris could feel the truth of his words li

The fourth morning brought with it an unnatural fog that clung to Millbrook like a shroud of malevolent intent. Iris woke to find the world outside her window transformed into something that belonged more to nightmare than to the quaint New England town she had come to love. The mist writhed with an almost conscious purpose, carrying with it the scent of decay and something else, something that made her skin crawl with instinctive dread.Through the dying remnants of her connection to Eleanor's garden, she could sense the wrongness that had settled over the town like a plague. The fog was not natural weather but a manifestation of Evangeline's growing influence, a supernatural miasma that pressed against the minds of Millbrook's residents and whispered dark suggestions into their dreams."She's not content with destroying just the garden," Damien said, his voice carrying the strain of someone who had spent yet another sleepless night fighting battles he could not win. Dark circles sha