Haustorium
haustorium
/hɔːˈstɔːrɪəm/
noun
BOTANY
- a slender projection from the root of a parasitic plant, such as a dodder, or from the hyphae of a parasitic fungus, enabling the parasite to penetrate the tissues of its host and absorb nutrients from it.
You’ve probably heard of the trope of Hanahaki Disease. At the beginning of the end, that’s what we thought this was, too.
But we were wrong. Oh, we were wrong. By the time the flowers started to burst from people’s chests,the time the blossoms on the brain turned them into shambling monsters, it was too late to stop it from spreading.
It’s been 20 years, and the majority of the liveable space in the town of Rowan is what was once a shopping mall, now a shelter for its small surviving population. Newly made leader Liberty has a large role to fill, but she won’t let anybody down.
She can’t let anybody down.