Emptober Day 7: Sunflowers
The Ancients appear to have called sunflowers something like los ojos de la muerte, meaning the eyes of death.
They believed that if a sunflower interrupted it’s cycle of following the sun, it was a sign of bad luck. An omen of death. For Madre de Girasoles, the Ancients’ goddess of death, was watching for someone who’s soul would need guidance soon.
All of it is clearly a myth, of course.
Except one time, Pix did find a sunflower that wasn’t facing the sun when it should have been. He could have sworn it was only around 8 weeks old. Or was that the one a few meters away from it?
He didn’t pay it much mind. He went back to building a model of the Ancient City, and when he got up for a lunch break, the sunflower was facing him. And he watched it slowly turn away before his eyes.
Pix decided that maybe he had been alone for too long. He tucked the model safely away in the catacombs and went to hang out with Gem for a while.
The truth is, Pearl gets bored sometimes. She didn’t mean to scare the poor man she just wanted to see how his model was coming along.