A Quiet Hope Sung

You put a fractured blackthorn blossom brooch into a pale, budding peach blossom.

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You carefully inscribe your message onto the inner folds of a pale, budding peach blossom. The magic ink flashes slightly as its glow permeates the origami with its power.

With a final fold, you close and seal a pale, budding peach blossom, hiding its message deep within the folds.

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You read what is written on redolent peach blossom stationery:

[A charmed piece of origami accompanies this sheet of stationery, weighty with what it conceals. There is an art to the penmanship contained within the poetry that follows, its letters fluid, graceful, and clear.]

Blackthorn, oh Blackthorn, masked within the dark,
   What terrors have you seen?
Squat, though growing toward your mark,
   Allowing the obscene
To strangle your unblemished heart:
   How do you still dream?

Blackthorn, oh Blackthorn, how you twist
   About these branches tangled;
How your flowers bloom from mist
   With bowed emotions mangled--
With a spirit vivid within, not white,
   Your purity embrangled.

Blackthorn, oh Blackthorn, please remember
   Feeling warmth and light:
Your snowy petals are a burning ember
   Bursting with life at night
Like a star against the midnight sky,
   Guiding, and twinkling, bright.

You were loved, oh Blackthorn, untouched as you were:
   What colours did She see?
Even now do radiant tinctures stir,
   Cherished, though hidden from me--
Potential smothered by broken vows
   First made before your tree.

Blackthorn, oh Blackthorn, why do you take
   What others cannot give?
Do you do it for the painful ache
   Which bleeds through your heart's sieve?

Do you reject Her, who sees you true,
   Who yearns for you to live?

Redolent peach blossom stationery is holding:
"blossom352290"               a pale, budding peach blossom (action origami)
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You address redolent peach blossom stationery to Nocht, the Silent, and immediately a harried-looking elfen comes out to take it from you. She whistles, and a great horned owl comes flying into the room. The elfen attaches redolent peach blossom stationery to the owl's leg, and it speeds away.