Sleeper(s)
And, suddenly, she’d plucked the largest flower from its nest and was bringing it up to her nose, to draw it even closer—to take in more of the smell and the colours (the ever-shifting colours?
That was when it happened. As she rose, taking the flower with her, she felt a sharp pain in her fingers. Suzie let out a loud ‘Ouch!’ then looked down to see what had happened. There were thorns on the stalk. She could have sworn they weren’t there before: she wouldn’t have grabbed hold of it if they had been. Thorns that ran the length of the stem, jutting out now like lethal spikes. There was no way at least one or two of them wouldn’t pierce her skin—and she saw now, as she examined the wound more
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