Author's Note: The plant on the memorial plaque is a Monotropa uniflora, aka the Ghost Plant, Indian Pipe, or Ghost Pipe. This plant is the namesake of Monotropa and is also the plant Miel gifted to Abeille early in the series.
Author's Note: The plant on the memorial plaque is a Monotropa uniflora, aka the Ghost Plant, Indian Pipe, or Ghost Pipe. This plant is the namesake of Monotropa and is also the plant Miel gifted to Abeille early in the series.
21 thoughts on “Love Not Found – Ch.24, p34”
Cha Cha Cha
Crushing a flower in the process. Very smart, lady. Very caring.
Wildfirev
Wow, just.. wow, such disrespect for the planet you’re visiting. “I like this place here. I’ll just destroy this flower because MY Daughter deserves the spot more.” and just the absolute dismissal of Abeille’s way of remembrance.
Amaryllis is such a piece of work. I hope she gets what’s coming to her.
Tina M Comroe
aaaaand here’s the One Upmanship move…yep. Her sister would have loved the seeds more than the big picture to make her little sister feel small. good going mommy dearest. (sarcasm)
Diane
Yeah, no, your daughter would hate that. Shows how much this woman cares about others. While killing another thing to memorialize her legacy. I’m sorry, her daughter. Cause she cares about her daughter so much.
Tarod
The flower on the memorial looks like a parasitic flower called a ghost pipe.
It’s fitting in so many ways. Is it actually a ghost pipe?
Gina Biggs
Yes, it is the Monotropa uniflora, aka the ghost pipe. It’s the plant Miel gifted to Abeille and the namesake of the planet ^_^
Laura
Are you ALLOWED to put a personal memorial like that in the middle of a public park…?
Bleuryder
My very first thought was “Did you even get permission to put that there?” As someone who lives in a country where tourists routinely get away with trashing it, this bothered me so much. Her entitlement to put the memorial bothers me on a different level. Like, “MY thing is more important than whatever this place is and it’s importance to this country is.” It hits differently when you come from a place that just a few weeks ago had a tourist drunkenly torch four local businesses on a drunken tantrum and is just barely getting what they deserve (on a justice level).
And don’t even get me started on the dismissal of Abeille’s gift. That’s a rant that would make me find out if this website has a character limit. I really hope the mom gets what’s coming to her.
A Nonny Mouse
This page actually made me so upset I’m crying. The absolute disrespect of killing a flower to put up that disturbing hologram, the brushing off of the strawberries (Evette’s favorite plant/fruit) and Abielle’s incredibly thoughtful idea of planting them, and the fact that the plaque is a ghost pipe, which I once found growing under some bushes near my house years ago and my mother decided it was an ugly weed and had the landscaper get rid of it even though she knew I really liked it. I genuinely can’t stand Amaryllis, she reminds me entirely too deeply of my mom.
Grandmotherbear
We seem to have had the same mother..excu7se me maternal host beast
Jenny
Talk about putting someone on a pedestal.
Glotos
…And…didn’t she just get done dreaming of her sister’s ghost?
Cherryz
“Would have wanted something that lasts” hello? EVER BEARING strawberries????? Good grief x.x
Deb R.B.
And here we go. So many sentiments already said by everyone that I agree with, so I have nothing to add. Just mad right along with them!
Dartania
Okay so… Ignoring the fact that Evette was the one who wanted to get off planet in the first place, to go somewhere warm and lush and grow strawberries. But on a more basic level… This memorial shows Evette as she was after she froze to death! She never dressed like that in life, not even to sleep. She couldn’t even choose an image of her awake and smiling and happy. She’s memorializing her death, not her life.
Which makes sense… Amaryllis probably got a lot more positive attention, sympathy, acts of affection (such as when people send food and such), after she was the mother who lost her daughter, rather than the mother of a successful scientist.
Mim
I don’t know that I’ve ever commented or looked for the comments before because it took me a minute to find it so I could comment. The sheer outrage I feel about placing the memorial on top of a flower and then the hurt over the narc mom, the enabler dad, the forgotten child and golden child dynamics. This is top tier story telling. I’m going to have to go clean something to get this frustration out XD
notamushimaster
It doesn’t even look like her! That was something I hated about my grandfather’s funeral – my family wanted an open casket, and the coroner put so much makeup on him that he didn’t look like himself. I think Evette would be much happier with strawberry seeds, which fulfill her wish of having a garden, than an overpriced, genericized unfaithful portrayal of the woman her mother wishes she had been.
AnnaBell
Also, Amaryllis doesn’t live on that planet. Leaving behind something that her surviving daughter will have to deal with any repercussions from while skating offplanet herself is a new level of selfish. Not to mention that it also reads as Amaryllis marking her territory, as well as potentially shoving a “look what you did” in Abeille’s face every time she tries to visit the garden.
Davanae
Only because of the source, this feels like another way to control and force her eldest daughter into a mold rather than recognize and remember who she truly was. It is pretty.
Crane
It’s interesting, the dialectic between the kind of message Amaryllis wants to share versus Abeille. Who will end up controlling the narrative of this person’s memory?
Thea
Crushing that plant like she crushes her daughter’s spirit. D: Yikes.
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