Tegan was utterly exhausted after giving birth. She lay limp on the delivery bed. At that moment, it was as if she had gone dead. She couldn't hear anything.

However, Tegan could almost hear the sound of pink flower buds quietly cracking open in the darkness and the petals growing silently after absorbing water.

A moment later, Tegan's hearing returned. She heard the doctor attending to her, and the nurse cleaning her newborn baby girl, whose cries were piercingly loud. A tear rolled down fro