What's that thing they say about a rose by any other name?

Prolong

Entry 20, **21 at 12:30 pm

They say that each Flower represents different emotions and Feelings. But I suppose my opinion on Flowers means something different. My "mother" told me that the Gods betrayed her the minute I was created by her and the "outcast". At least, that's what she called him. I never understood why, but she always told me that my hair was nothing but a cruse. Maybe that's why she made me into a monster... a Monster who loves Flowers and will Run all my life if I have to. If I find this "outcast," then I hope he's better than "Mother." Until then, I'll stay on guard and hope that I will never meet another monster in my life.

-Yumie *****

"Paimon thinks this 'Yumie' Lady can help us, Lummie. Maybe there's some clues about where she is." Paimon said as Lummie was looking around a run-down abandoned lab, seeing broken test tubes, dried-up blood, and old snake skin. "maybe... it looks like there was a fight here. there's dried-up blood; maybe she was in a fight and hurt herself?" Lummie said as she kneeled down to examine the blood and sighed. "Paimon thinks it might lead us to her. Let's see if there are any other clues," Paimon said before flying off, with Lummie catching up to her and yelling, "Paimon, wait up! We don't know what's here!"

"It's fine! Paimon will be careful! what's the worst thing that can- EEK!" Paimon stops flying, and Lummie sees what made her friend freak out. The room was set up to hold someone in for an extremely long time, with a broken small bed, a side room looking like a bathroom, and a few books. but the main thing that scared Paimon was the Snake den covering a woman who seemed to have died a few months ago holding a bouquet of dead man's bells so tightly that it would be impossible to remove it. "you don't think that was Yumie's m-mother Lummie?" Paimon said with a stutter and shaking as Lummie looked at the snakes. "If it is, then we need to ask Yumie about this. But we need to go. Now" Lummie grabs Paimon's hand and runs out of the lab with one question in her mind.

'Why did she kill her mother?'