The Notebook of Forsythia Bloom

These will be the last words written by a native of this planet. Why am I even bothering? After all, I’ll be dust in a matter of hours. The ship is gone. They launched at first light. Rose was right all along. The Council was hiding something…that none of us ever had a chance. They built that ship for themselves. Everyone is gathering at The Center right now. Not me. I’ll meet my fate alone, sitting here by the pond. As I lay here on the grass I can see the last sliver of sky slowly dissolving into chaos. It’s actually kind of beautiful. Ah, and here come creeping my little lovelies…the plants I discovered. There are more now. Weird little things–I’ll be the only one who knew you existed. Wow, there really are a lot now. You don’t know what’s coming, do you? Nature’s just keeping on…right until the end.

Several days and still no reply. I’m getting worried. There is a large gathering at The Center right now. There’s concern that the blast wave might reach our barricades sooner than expected. I’ve noticed more activity going on at the launch site, too. If the Council decides to launch early…what if they haven’t even looked at my report yet? Please, please, please…I have to be on that ship.

The Council has agreed to review my findings! This is my ticket off this planet. Once they see my discovery, they’ll recognize what a valuable scientist I am, and they’ll be sure to grant me passage to New Home. Just in time, too…if the current predictions are true, the waves of the Geometry Bomb will soon reach our shores, and this territory will be obliterated. Anyone left here will be trapped forever, their atoms randomly dispersed through space–not living, but not truly dead. I don’t like to think about these ghosts. I will get to New Home.

I’ve found several more of these odd plants over the past few weeks. Each day there seem to be new ones…they seem to be taking over the pond. I set up a surveillance camera at the pond to get a better idea of how they are multiplying. The strange thing is, they don’t really seem to be mobile unless I’m around. Admittedly, this is a bit alarming, but they don’t appear to pose any kind of a threat. They don’t bite or sting, they just…grasp.