You Can Ask The Flowers
When he found none, he nodded slowly and guided her hand to rest against the rose's stem, just below where his own fingers maintained contact with the bloom.
The moment their connection formed a triangle, Iris, Damien, and the supernatural flower, the world exploded into sensation beyond anything she could have imagined. Through the rose's stored memories, she experienced Damien's hunger as a living thing, a constant ache that gnawed at his very essence. But more than that, she felt his sixty years of struggle against it, his daily choice to embrace Eleanor's alternative rather than surrender to the easier path of predation.
The rose shared its own perspective as well, its profound satisfact