Itsxlilix -

In the center, kneeling in the dirt, was a figure. They wore a simple grey tunic, their face soft and ageless. Their hands were dark with soil. When they looked up, Kael saw their eyes weren't cybernetic, just… human. Tired. Kind.

They handed Kael a single lily bulb.

"Why do you do this?" he asked.

"Find Itsxlilix," she said, her voice a harmony of three different people. "Tell them the garden remembers." Itsxlilix