Plart’s mall was somehow even more chaotic than you’d anticipated—but everyone survived. Not everyone was thriving, certainly, but eventually you’d all stolen or caught what or whom you needed.
As if ready to get you all off his turf, Plart offered his congratulations tersely and guided you back to the Segway station to dismount for the last time. Phew. You could certainly hope the next car wouldn’t pit you against each other so much—but you were almost certain you wouldn’t have to wrestle these things again.
But you did still have to follow Neko-Neko, out onto the rushing wasteland and across to the next car. It was hard to feel much of anything but trepidation at this point, but maybe, maybe, a more helpful Denizen would be here.
You stepped into some kind of little florist shop with pleasant lighting. Tasteful flower arrangements and bonsai took up most of one wall, while another held looser flowers—were some of those translucent? Par for the course, perhaps, but still odd enough to notice. Ten outstanding bouquets had odd little hand-painted pictograph tags hanging from their vases. Each held a lovely, unique combination of flowers centered on roses, but something seemed to be missing from them.
At this point, the Denizens seemed to be missing as well. Would anyone tell you how to get the far door to unlock? Were you supposed to depend on Neko-Neko for that? With your luck, they’d just tell you to kill someone and see if it works. Then again, after Comedy’s claims, maybe you didn’t want to trust every supposedly native Denizen wholeheartedly, either…
As you finally passed through to the end of the store, you found the car wasn’t quite as small as it had seemed. A zen garden spread out before you with trees, stones, a curved bridge, raked sand, and a few benches. Though peaceful, all of it was oddly drained of color. You weren’t sure it needed fixing, per se, but it was still noticeable.
A flitter tickled the edge of your vision. You turned to look, but by then the only sign of… whatever that had been was a quiver in some of the flower shop’s petals.
Hmm. Maybe the helpful Denizens weren’t missing after all.
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[Car Reference Post]
Bouquets:
Bouquet 1 (complete)
Tag: the letter “A”Roses: orange, pink, blue
Bouquet 2 (complete)
Tag: an eye with a dark circle beneath
Roses: (orange, lime,) toffee, red, green*, whitish*
Bouquet 3 (complete)
Tag: a gadget of some kind
Roses: blue, lime, teal, red
Bouquet 4 (complete)
Tag: a figure hard at work as a clock speeds along overhead
Roses: toffee, green, blue, grey, orange
Bouquet 5 (complete)
Tag: two similar figures facing away from each other
Roses: grey, orange, red, green
Bouquet 6 (complete)
Tag: a pair of handcuffs
Roses: orange, whitish, pink, green, lime
Bouquet 7 (complete)
Tag: a wrist with a number of marks
Roses: green, yellow, toffee
Bouquet 8 (complete)
Tag: a hoodie
Roses: green, teal, grey
Bouquet 9 (complete)
Bouquet 10 (complete)
Tag: two figures placing a hand on each of a smaller figure’s shoulders
Roses: teal, purple, lime, yellow
