The Garden That Colors the Earth (2)

Malbrocia, the Garden That Colors the Earth.

Like Rahab, it was one of the Three Great Calamities that threw the continent into turmoil.

When it first appeared, no one could have imagined things turning out as they have.

All that had happened was that a flower garden unlike anything seen before had appeared in the middle of a plain.

It was a perfectly ordinary flower garden.

It was so beautiful that the nearby villages even considered it an unexpected tourist attraction.

People began coming to see it, and some picked the flowers to take home.

The change came several days later.

The flower garden had nearly doubled in area since it was first discovered.

A pasture covered in flowers. The cows grazing there vanished without a trace overnight...