Velvet Chains
But given everything else you've described, I don't think anyone here is inclined to treat this lightly.
"He knew exactly what painting I was working on," Vivienne said. "In real time. That's nothing."
"No," the detective agreed. "It isn't. I've already got a unit canvassing florists within a two-mile radius, starting with any that specialize in that particular orchid variety. It's not a common stock; most shops special-order it. That narrows things considerably."
It took less than four hours.
A small, family-run florist on Bleecker Street confirmed the sale; a man, mid-forties perhaps, polite and unremarkable, paid entirely in cash, no name given for the receipt.