Laurel, angered, leaves and threatens to call the police if she finds Tamani trespassing again, later finding some strange glitter on her arm where he touched her. He offers answers, however, and explains that she-like him-is a faerie a highly-evolved, sentient plant. She finds him intriguing and handsome but is wary of how unsurprised he is by the flower on her back. Laurel and her parents travel to visit their old house on the property and Laurel meets a young man called Tamani. Barnes is particularly interested if Laurel’s parents have ever had trespassers on the property. Meanwhile, Laurel’s parents are visited by Jeremiah Barnes, who is interested in buying their small plot of land near Orick, which they are selling to pay for the bookstore. Using David’s microscope, they confirm that the blossom is a plant. Hesitant to tell her parents, Laurel confides in David, who is surprised but also remarks that the blossom resembles a pair of wings. She attempts to use an herbal salve of her mother’s to treat it, but the zit only grows larger, until one day she wakes up with an enormous blue flower growing out of the small of her back. A few weeks into the year, Laurel gets a large pimple on her back, which is unusual as she never gets pimples.
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