It’s been some time since Eden and Vanna ventured into the embassy’s gardens to water the plants together. Since then, their efforts had finally borne fruit: the seeds that they had carefully planted had all bloomed into wondrous flowers, not unlike the feelings between the two, whose petals had unfurled—slowly but surely—into a lovely flower of its own. It was early in the morning when they walked into the greenhouse, nothing but fine mist and their hus...