Rosa Ceaea, Fourth Bloom, has just one job – understanding how best to domesticate this first crop of cotyledons. Not only that, she’s been given an adorable floret to care for, one who’s so utterly enraptured with her. So why can’t she figure out the disease that’s killing her?

Ivy’s an independent sophont, working away in her lab - but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t enjoy indulging in some ‘interspecies research’ with her coworkers, from time to time.