written hastily during the racing event

[teratophilia]

MS. TREETOPS GOT INFECTED BY THE PURPLE FLOWERS. I SAW HER PUT HER HAND ON THE GRILL FIRE AND SMILE AT ME AS MORE PURPLE FLOWERS GREW IN HER HAIR. SHE KNOWS I KNOW AND SHE DOESN'T EVEN CARE. I ALMOST FAINTED BUT NOT FOR REGULAR REASONS. BECAUSE OF FLOWER MAGIC, PROBABLY.

ALSO, POCKET KNOWS I KNOW AND TRIED TO DISTRACT ME. not even TRIED, she DID distract me, there was not an option.

and now you all know, too.

Comments

[merlinpletcher]

What the fuck.

[...]

Guess that makes sense, though. We know fire doesn't work on those things.

What'd Pocket do?

[...]

You ok?

[teratophilia]

she was THRIVING from it. in full bloom. and she kept looking at me looking at her, like a weird staring contest. and when i looked back after pocket distracted me, ms. treetops was just GONE!!!

pocket made me buy her a shaved ice. i mean i would've done that anyway if she asked, but i felt compelled to look away from treetops and look at pocket instead.

but i'm okay though :( thanks

[merlinpletcher]

So Treetop's giving you the evil eye and Pocket's playing head games. To protect you or to keep you from seeing something or for whatever reason. [...] Screwed up, all around.

[...]

Good. That's something at least.

What do you want to do?

[filigreed]

The fuck is going on?

[teratophilia]

WHERE DO I EVEN START

[filigreed]

Is there a good starting point. Feel like we're beyond a starting point.

[notpoison]

Some plants are parasitic. Maybe those purple flowers are too.

[teratophilia]

oh they definitely ARE. do we stick her in a freezer??? i don't want to hurt her but i don't know how to help her and apparently none of the adults notice or care????

[notpoison]

Orobanche even has purple flowers sometimes. Might be a coincidence. Might be a genetic relative. The plants seem man-made. Hybrid maybe. Can't be sure.

I [...] don't know how farmers get rid of it. I just know it can be used in some potions.

We might need to go to Google.com

[shoulderdevil]

Those purple flowers and the whole 'family emergency' thing were pretty sketchy anyway. Guess it's good to have confirmed that she's probably an evil flower person now.

Not great about Pocket.

[teratophilia]

do adults not see it? at all? something has been so obviously off about her, this fire-touching-and-grinning just confirms what we already suspected.

[pageantree]

She's not evil! If anything, she needs help

[tristfully]

And Mr. Crockett’s brother is missing. Just ... by the way.

[teratophilia]

still??

[quodpotted]

wait he has a brother?

[andpoke]

[...] i think she'd try
to help us
no matter what it took
pocket i mean

she said this
would break us
that she's seen it before.

[teratophilia]

what's going to break us? it feels like we're going to be broken regardless.

[damnnearkilledem]

Ms. Treetops I She was She was just She was just trying to save her greenhouse and now th

I want to help Ms. Treetops.

[fratsquatch]

Most deffo.

[teratophilia]

me too. it's scary. ice is the only way we know for sure can wither those flowers though.

[pageantree]

Can I help?

Help... helping, I mean?

[necrodanseuse]

Are you all right?

[teratophilia]

i'm fine.

you know in It (2017) where pennywise is eating that arm and then uses it to wave to the kids? same vibe.

[quodpotted]

what???

[...] Pocket was trying to protect you

[teratophilia]

ohhh do you think i was in danger??