The Oo Flower (Part One)
"What's this papa?" Anouk asked her father, Adrianus upon receiving a peculiar present from him. It looked like a flower bulb, but it bore no colours. Anouk gently played with the flower bulb in her tiny hands. It looked more like a crystal that was made to look like a flower bulb than one, but the texture was the same as that of the other flower bulbs she had been planting in her tiny garden. As she sat next to her father on the family sofa in front of the fireplace, she studied the clear flower bulb with a look of curiousity. The living room was quiet for a few seconds as Adrianus watched his daughter studied the flower bulb with a gentle smile on his face. Flower bulb - imagine it clear like a crystal "My sweet Anouk, this is the bulb of the Oo flower," Adrianus started to explain to his six year old daughter. Anouk looked confused. She had never heard of a flower called Oo before. Adrianus continued to explain, "Remember my flower? The one near the fir