Meadowveil Blossom

The Meadowveil Blossom is a large-petalled pink flower that blankets the plains during Tauria's warm season in sweeping drifts of colour. Its petals are layered in tight rosette formation — pale at the outer edge, deepening to a warmer rose at the centre — and the blooms grow densely enough that from elevation they transform entire hillsides into fields of moving colour, shifting with the wind like a second sea.

The Meadowveil Blossom blooms for thirty days, then falls. The fallen petals form a mulching layer that retains moisture in the soil through the drier months that follow. The bloom and the fall are both beautiful in their different ways.

Giliad's Field Note

Dahlia tends the Meadowveil patches near the settlement with a care she does not apply in the same way to anything else — a slower hand, a pause before she moves on, a quality of attention that is different in kind. I have not mentioned this to her. Some observations are better kept. — G.