The smell of the flowers was especially designed to allure the bees. And to allure her. The buds were nothing special but the smell calmed her. Like floral Valium. “That’s the idea,” the voice told her. “When you see those plants, you will feel calm.”
She was amused most by his assumption that she would be taken in by his allure—should one call it that? He was an almost textbook mess of a man: disheveled in ever conceivable variation of the term.
The smell of the flowers was especially designed to allure the bees. And to allure her. The buds were nothing special but the smell calmed her. Like floral Valium. “That’s the idea,” the voice told her. “When you see those plants, you will feel calm.”
She was amused most by his assumption that she would be taken in by his allure—should one call it that? He was an almost textbook mess of a man: disheveled in ever conceivable variation of the term.