Katherine couldn’t help it. As soon as she brought it near her ear, she had that blissful look on her face…
It’d started when she’d seen the flower. Some guy near here… or at least, something like that… always watered it every day at ten. He always seemed to ask at the snack bar for some girl named ‘Emma’, who didn’t work there.
After that, he’d probably walk away… but ten thirty was when the beach rush hit, and she couldn’t afford to walk away just then. Luckily, she was allowed to wear the swimsuit underneath her uniform, and the snack bar’s manager let her out for breaks once in a while.
As soon as she could, she’d sneak out to the beach, or find that strange guy and ask him about the flower. Immediately when she drew close, Katherine saw that it was a hibiscus-looking flower, and her tight swimsuit tingled with some kind of… reaction to it smelling so nice. She was feeling happy… glad that she’d shed her clothes…
She happily knelt down to it, smelling it deeply… that was when the voices started, she thought. It was like a soft susurrative whisper at first, but as soon as Katherine touched its blooming pink beauty, she felt it shout right into her mind. It was like… imprinting on her brain… She slowly plucked the flower, even more slowly bringing it up to her ear…
And tucked it behind her ear happily as the flower rewrote her.
First step: go get more swimsuits. Second step: Go change her name… to Emma.
I hope you enjoy this, @midorikonton. The next parts are coming, but I simply couldn’t resist…
A conversation with @pearlqueensposts led to me requesting a triptych of Emmas. Imagine my surprise to find they’d elected to do this prologue as well!