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In a land where no one dared to speak aloud, there lived a woman with a flower for a head. She saw nothing, heard no one— but each morning, the bees sang to her. They said she was a curse grown from earth, but the truth was simpler: she chose to stop being human. When her last love left the world, smelling life was no longer enough— so she bloomed, and only the bees remember what she said and what she never dared to speak.