the flowers bloom, their beauty just the thing she needs.

[rosestolilies]

[A ripple rolls through the Gardens.

Warmth. Love. Togetherness. It spreads out from the ruins like a shockwave and passes through each and every person in its path in a flash.

Faint, unsteady snippets of song drift through the air, carried by some force other than the Vine, the voice behind them barely identifiable as the Queen's.]

Clusters of

Comments

[peachhat]

As I expected, you weren't actually going to send anyone home properly.

Really, you learned nothing, but at least I was right about you people being stupid.

[rosestolilies]

But I was!

I changed my mind.

[peachhat]

But you aren't going to, anymore, and that matters.

We saw that you changed your mind alright.

[rosestolilies]

I'm really awfully sorry, but you've all just made this place so nice and made me so happy...what if it all became ruins if I sent people home? I don't want more ruins.

[peachhat]

Guess that happened last time, huh? No wonder you have those awful ruins still standing there.

[rosestolilies]

It was different, last time. I couldn't do anything, and they didn't want me anymore...

That's why this time, I won't let go.

[peachhat]

And you think that the people you captured this time want you...why?

Remember, nobody would have come to find you if you hadn't make a promise you just broke. Clinging won't make people like you, you know.