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[absinthe_eyed]

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Asters.  More specifically, these are Eurybia divaricata, or white wood asters.  They flower in mid to late summer and early fall and are, to some, a symbol of patience.  It takes approximately two years for an aster to flower fully, as this one has.

This was the second plant I had in the City.  The

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[absinthe_eyed]

Sorry. It seemed like valuable information.

[Awkward pause. No, really... the awkward is audible.]

Do you like flowers?

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[absinthe_eyed]

[To... anyone City!Dead with spare eyeballs?]

Mm. The smell is overwhelming, too.

Do you have a favorite? Or a... a favorite color?

[Because nothing says "Sorry I'm a murderer, can we still be friends even though my interpersonal communication is awful" like a nice bouquet.]

[had_not_lived]

Eyes?

[absinthe_eyed]

Yes. The starting price was two sets of human eyes, but this was the end price after a small amount of bartering.

[had_not_lived]

That's... it's...

I want to say it's horrifying, because it is, but it's also... kind of amazing.

[absinthe_eyed]

It's both of those things.

From a strictly analytical point of view, however, it makes perfect sense. He gives me something that has little value to him in exchange for something that, to him, is more valuable. He can't eat lives, and eighteen animal eyes are, I assume, worth more than a single pair of human eyes.

[cuffyoutwice]

Small price.

Small, gross price.

[absinthe_eyed]

They came in jars. I didn't have to touch them.

[cuffyoutwice]

That's actually lessening the gross factor, which is a point in the column of I've Been Here Too Damn Long.

[absinthe_eyed]

It's remarkable what changes time here can have. I received a complaint about a possible werewolf the other day and it didn't strike me as at all unusual.