Bouquetman [EASY]

A bouquet. Not of roses or lilies, but of forgotten things : wilted apology notes, torn photographs of ex-lovers, broken watch hands stopped at the exact moment a promise was broken, and dried thistles wrapped in frayed black ribbon. The flowers are always fresh, yet always dying. The center of the arrangement is a single, dark sunflower that never faces the sun—it faces you .

Bouquetman does not speak. He communicates through absence. A vase on your dining table will be empty. The perfume of your late grandmother’s garden will fade from her shawl. The smell of rain on concrete will lose its sweetness. One by one, he takes the tiny, beautiful sensory anchors that tether you to joy. bouquetman

Witnesses—those few who claim to have seen him and retained their sanity—describe a figure of impossible geometry. At first, he appears to be a man in a long, charcoal coat, standing perfectly still at the end of a hallway or across a foggy park. But as your eyes adjust, you realize his head is not a head. It is an arrangement. A bouquet

So, in Alder’s End, when someone is caught lying about love, or breaking a heart for sport, the neighbors don't call the police. They simply look at each other and whisper, "He’s been seen near the bridge tonight." The center of the arrangement is a single,

He doesn’t knock. He doesn’t whisper. He simply arrives.

And the next morning, there is always one more flower in the bouquet.