Echo Blossom

**Echo Blossoms** are magical flowers found in the Gloaming. Violet's mother, Gloria, used them to leave messages behind before she disappeared.

There are ten Echo Blossoms in total.

## Dialogue

Blossom 1 (first pillar)

* Herbalist Violet: Ooh. Hold up. I’ve never seen a plant like this before.
* Adept Amira: I’ve only heard of them, but I think this is an Echo Blossom.
* Tara: Woah. All the petals are covered in crystal.
* Adept Amira: Echo Blossoms look normal, but if you grasp the stem, the flower takes a short impression. And if you crack the layer of crystals…
* Herbalist Violet: Oops! It’s so slippery! No. No way.
* Gloria: I hope this works. Echo Blossoms are powerful magic, and my mama said not many of them are left… … but if I don’t make it out of the Gloaming tonight, I want someone to know I was here. And these will be my little breadcrumb trail.
* Adept Amira: Gloria…
* Tara: Is it true, Violet? That was your mom?
* Herbalist Violet: I – I can’t believe I just – yeah. That was her.
* Tara: So we know she came this way the night she disappeared!
* Adept Amira: It seems so. Violet, are you all right? What a shock to your system.
* Herbalist Violet: Oh my god! I saw her! I really saw her!!! Yes!
* Adept Amira: We should look for more of these.
* Herbalist Violet: Are you kidding? I’m not letting a single one get away! I need to know everything!
* Adept Amira: Well, before we get into the search we need to get back and speak with the coven about it.
* Herbalist Violet: Ugh, fine but then I want to come right back and begin looking!

Blossom 2 (first pillar)

* Herbalist Violet: I knew it! I knew we’d find more Echo Blossoms!
* Tara: Do you want to listen to it?
* Herbalist Violet: Pffft, what kind of question is that?
* Gloria: Ever since I was a little girl, the wraiths have been getting stronger. Once, when I was ten, a wraith escaped. Took over poor Mr. Gibson, and he let all his cows loose… It was funny then. Not so funny now.
* Herbalist Violet: I heard about Mr. Gibson! I had no idea he set his cows loose because of a wraith… What else could my mom have told me if she’d been there?
* Tara: I’m sorry, Violet.
* Herbalist Violet: Don’t be sorry. Coming here is the closest I’ve gotten to her for years!

Blossom 3 (fae circle, first pillar)

* Herbalist Violet: Yes! Another one!
* Gloria: Over the years, the Gloaming itself has changed. It used to be fully alive, you know? Everything bloomed. But now there are so many places where nothing grows. I worry that when Violet and Sebastian are grown, there’ll be nothing left.
* Herbalist Violet: She was always stressed. I thought it was because she had a lot to manage, being the mayor’s wife and our mom and all. But this must have stressed her out too.
* Tara: Because it affected you. And your brother.
* Herbalist Violet: And she was right to be worried.

Blossom 4 (second pillar)

* Herbalist Violet: Tara, look! Another Echo Blossom!
* Gloria: No one seems to be taking Shelby’s prophecy seriously. Lina and Giacomo just want to keep the town from finding out about us, Arno and Kaya are too busy planning their move back home, and Hazel seems distracted lately. But I can’t forget what Shelby said: “A daughter of the coven will be in mortal danger.” I will protect Violet. Even if I have to do it alone.
* Herbalist Violet: There… was a prophecy? About me? Why didn’t anyone in the coven tell me? It… really is my fault she came in here. She was trying to protect me.
* Tara: You can’t blame yourself, Violet. It’s not your fault. You were just a kid.
* Herbalist Violet: I’m going to find her, Tara. No matter what, I need to know what happened.

Blossom 5 (second pillar)

* Herbalist Violet: Is that another Echo Blossom?
* Gloria: The newest witch, Amira, seems to have gotten very, very close with Peri. I hope Peri is honest, and tells Amira what she told me once… … as much as Peri enjoys the occasional mortal distraction, she only ever loved Vivian.
* Tara: Aww. I knew it.

Blossom 6 (second pillar)

* Herbalist Violet: Is that…? Yes!
* Gloria: Shelby is the most talented Farseer I’ve ever known, but he isn’t the only one on this island. Mama had the sight. And she dreamed that Shelby would come to us one day.
* Herbalist Violet: My abuela could see the future…?
* Gloria: That gift skipped me. But maybe it will come to Violet or Bastian in time.
* Herbalist Violet: Yeah… that hasn’t happened.

Blossom 7 (third pillar)

* Herbalist Violet: Yes! I knew we were gonna find another!
* Gloria: By now, Antonio’s probably noticed I’m gone. I haven’t come up with a good excuse yet. He senses my magic, even if he doesn’t understand it. He never asks too many questions. But I’ve been stepping out late at night a lot more lately.
* Herbalist Violet: He knows now, that’s for sure. Those messages about Mom and me in the woods, wearing our robes and masks… That’s how Otto won the election, did I ever tell you that? My dad had to drop out of the race after someone started blackmailing him about us being witches. We still don’t know who sent them.
* Tara: Violet… that’s so messed up.
* Herbalist Violet: Yeah. I try not to think about it.

Blossom 8 (third pillar)

* Herbalist Violet: Oh, did you find another one? Let me see!
* Gloria: Bastian is still too young to realize he has the gift. But he does. I can tell. If I don’t make it back – someone has to nurture him, or those gifts may never show themselves. He’s more sensitive than he lets anyone see.

Blossom 9 (third pillar)

* Herbalist Violet: Ooh, I was worried we’d found them all!
* Gloria: Damon doesn’t like to show off, but he’s one of the smartest kids on this island. He could go away to college if he wanted. Get a degree. Join some city coven. But ever since his family moved here, he fit right in. Just like a puzzle piece snapping into place.

Blossom 10 (third pillar)

* Tara: Violet, look!
* Gloria: I just saw a dark wraith, the most powerful one I have ever seen in the Gloaming. I can’t let it escape into Fairhaven.
* Markus: Gloria, what are you doing in this part of the Gloaming all alone?
* Tara: Who’s that?
* High Priestess Lina: It sounded like… Dad?
* Gloria: Markus, I have to cast a glamour over the heart of the Wellspring to protect Violet.
* Markus: Gloria, come back with me right now.
* Gloria: I can’t. You don – Markus, look out! It’s right behind you!
* Markus: Ahhhhh!
* High Priestess Lina: Dad!
* Gloria: Let go of him! I’ve got you! Now I bind you wraith, no man shall you scathe!
* Herbalist Violet: Mom!
* Tara: Are you two okay?
* High Priestess Lina: Dad didn’t suddenly lose his memory. He was attacked by a wraith.
* Herbalist Violet: And Mom tried to fight it off. She didn’t just leave me, she was trying to save Markus.
* High Priestess Lina: We’ve got to keep it together, Violet. Vanessa is still in here somewhere. Juliet could be in grave danger.