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Chapter 1 - First Likeness .- White Carnation

At the dawn of clouded skies, where the light flickered with an ancient lament, the fire of desire consumed the hormones of a carnation… a white one, pure and trembling. The boy, eager and shivering, sought refuge in the heart of a crimson carnivorous flower.

From that longing arose a relationship of endless silences and glances that burned brighter than any words. They lived in a world where Love was heresy, a memory almost extinct; falling in love had been forbidden since time immemorial. Yet he, the Carnation boy, a recognized "human defect," defied the law and surrendered to the peril of loving the Carnivorous girl. His mistake: human, inevitable, perfect in its tragedy.

She, the Carnivorous girl, was the perfect product of the system. Unattached, aloof, every gesture measured by the cold logic of a bloodthirsty law. Each human was destined to a single mate to "preserve the species." Nothing escaped control; everything was under surveillance. At the moment she met him, the Carnation boy, the harmony of the system shuddered. At first, her indifference was so absolute that he could only smile through tears, as one embraces an endless winter.

The Carnation boy became a fugitive, a shadow fleeing the system. Before leaving, he whispered: "Come with me. I will love for both of us, while you learn to love me." Words that fell on her like withered petals, meaningless; she had everything, yet was empty, secure, and comfortable in her indifference.

Three days later, he invaded her home, took her hands, and gazed into her eyes with the last strength of his heart: "I love you." From her eyes flowed tears, not from love, but from the death of a love. The system captured him; marked as a threat, they turned him into the deceased. His lips whispered those two eternal words before being consumed, and his gaze remained fixed on her. She, trembling before the body, whispered: "Look at me… look into my eyes."

For the first time, the Carnivorous girl knew Love. And she decided to flee: fleeing her corrupted mind, the broken and ancient system, the empty eternity that had kept her perfect… yet alone.

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