The Plant That Paid Rent
A landing plant is not an amenity. It is a neighbour who does not speak at meetings.
A fictional narrative within Callizto Dark Symphony.
The plant had outlived a concierge.
Spireward called it greenery. The people who watered it called it Tuesday.
A resident tried to insure it under view amenity. Forge Mutual asked for a chassis number. The resident went quiet.
Rell Okada, coming down from a roof, poured the last of her bottle into the saucer.
“Don’t tell management I do interiors.”
The plant did not tell.
On the railing someone had tied a string with a tag: NOT A CLUB. WATER ANYWAY.
Ashfall would have recognized the theology.
Spireward pretended it was design.
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- Forge Mutual