Now we’ve got a big, big mess on our hands tonight [W6, Thursday, Pre-Curfew]

[hydrokinetics]

[Another day, another meeting. This one's more tense than usual especially with the lack of a small bat-child. Percy's right hand is sloppily bandaged up and his jaw is tight as his eyes burn with anger.]

Dr. Lecter knows we know. He's known since Saturday. Hal confirmed with me he's the Deputy, just like Hal confirmed to Dr. Lecter that we were onto him.

[A shaky sigh.] What the fuck do we do now?

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[insincerely]

Mine has sunflowers, chrysanthemums, and cosmos, if I'm remembering right.

[Since he kind of had to depend on Milla to tell him.]

The meanings were just stupid mushy stuff.

[hydrokinetics]

[He makes a face.]

Yuna made mine and Annabeth's match. Daisies on both of them which were...innocence and sincerity? Or something. Her's also had a Z-something for remembrance and mine had healing and gratitude flowers. So nothing useful.

[impulsiveness]

[He's actually using his to bookmark common responses in his notebook, so he opts to pull it out and show it to everyone else. It reads:

Yarrow - Healing
Bluebell - Gratitude
Chrysanthemum - Eternal friendship
Edelweiss - Courage, strength

So, nothing useful.]

[elemancy]

Doesn't seem like much of a lead.

[obviously.]

Pretty sure that there's gotta be something with them, though. Whichever ones Sara brought up... seems like she had to be hinting at something.

[she mentioned way more about the flowers in milla's letter than anything else, after all.]

[thatsthespirit]

[listening to everyone's responses and just making a :/a face]

I don't see any overlap between the flowers on your bookmarks and the ones mentioned in Sara's letter.

[so. . . they may be out of luck. . .]

[impulsiveness]

Maybe we're missing something, or we're focusing on the wrong thing.

[thatsthespirit]

It's possible. But I'm not sure what other non-censored parts of this letter I can focus on.

[. . .]

What are lino flowers?

[elemancy]

Kinda wish I'd looked at some of the other ones when we were putting them in the mailboxes.

[or this is a pretty useless lead.]

You think... there's something else we're missing? Assuming we'd know what any of them actually meant is kind of tough.

[thatsthespirit]

Likewise. Or at least asked Yuna to teach me a bit of flower language before--

[anyway]

I think Sara was hoping that Yuna gave me the same lesson it sounds like Yuna gave her. Unfortunately. . . that isn't true. What else can we focus on but her mention of flowers?

[elemancy]

[sara, did you do that, because it's not helping at all!]

Not sure. [he sighs deeply, running his hand a bit frustratedly through his hair.] All I can pick up are the flowers, but I don't know anything about those.

[thatsthespirit]

[she tried :(]

[lifts a hand to point at Sara's mention of roses]

Dark colored roses. . . black? Or dark red ones? And five different carnation colors. But which five? Pink, purple, white, yellow, red. . .

[elemancy]

Maybe. I don't... really know anything about flowers, but it seems like there must be something about them that could matter.

[too bad none of them seem equipped for this at all.]

[thatsthespirit]

. . .

Allow me to check my room one more time. Perhaps Yuna left a reference book in there for me to use.

[elemancy]

Yeah... See if there's anything to find.