Without a doubt, the vials that angelo vestri examines now are poisons.[break][break]

The vials themselves are not labeled, but the shelves are to denote which Pokemon offered its poison powder or venom from her menagerie. Ariados, Toxapex, Vileplume, Salazzle, Roselia, Tentacruel... The list of assorted types of poisons continues, symbols associated with them that are then stamped into the vials themselves.[break][break]

While John Sullivan examines the various instruments of toxicology, perhaps it would be the influence of his patron Tapu Lele that would cause one of the beakers to get carelessly knocked over. Kneeling down to pick it up would reveal a hidden notebook tucked under the table, with multiple entries describing the side effects of the poisons that Angelo examines on the shelves.[break][break]

One entry would be of unique interest to the Navigator -- for its description of the TOXEL VENOM matches the symptoms and severity of the poison that Felix Gallagher used on him in combat not so long ago as the masked 'Omen.'[break][break]

A poison that was purchased from this very flower shop.

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The pretty and quaint appearance of this cottage, much like the appearance of its owner, reveals itself to be something vile and horrifying beneath the saccharine surface.[break][break]

When the two men exit the cottage, the last of its darkest secrets now exposed, the closet door to her basement sighs open. Left ajar, kyle lopez would soon stumble on it later, completing his final inspection of this mysterious place.[break][break]

All around you, the Petalburg Woods rot in an absurd bastardization of the last throes of autumn.[break][break]

The flowers that Elisabeth Fiorelli had painstakingly cared for have all withered into peat and soil, no longer home to Butterfrees and Vivillon, but rather the feasting of hungry Scolipedes. Blackened leaves shrivel up and die on the curling branches of hunched trees, the Flying Pokemon that might have once nested in their boughs now notably keeping their distance from the blight below.[break][break]

It's as if the world has become wrong, and this is the center of the world's wrongness.[break][break]

Later, the report from PENELOPE LIVY will appear in full to them and to the members of AQUA. The full extent of the evils of this place will be discovered, and the darker nature of its owner revealed. A seemingly tidy bow will be tied on the conclusion of this sordid tale, labeling Elisabeth Fiorelli as a bioterrorist and poisoner with malicious intentions from the start.[break][break]

But memories will linger, nonetheless, of a springtime that existed here in spite of the death that claims everything now. Of an unsure and timid woman who wanted to see the sea for the first time in many years. Of a woman who spoke passionately and earnestly on the topic of raising Bug-type Pokemon and tending to flowers.[break][break]

That incongruent chapter will remain frustratingly unfinished, nagging that there is more to this story than a single investigation can discover.[break][break]

This tale is to be continued, later.

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