When the flower finally died and dropped its own seeds, the below changed color for the first time in history. It turned a deep, earthy gold. The humanity of the far future realized that while they had achieved immortality and perfection, they had forgotten the beauty of a single, fleeting moment .
: Physical bodies were vintage fashion. Most of humanity existed as Echoes —vast neural networks that could manifest into physical light-forms at will. A person might spend a decade as a cloud of shimmering mist before deciding to take the shape of a solid, copper-skinned human for a century or two. The Story: The Last Seed Season 32000
: People from all over the Aureoles descended. They had never seen "natural" growth. They watched, fascinated and frightened, as the stalk struggled against the wind, showing a fragility that their light-bodies could never know. The Conclusion When the flower finally died and dropped its