Plea #43: I don't know all that much about flowers, but I know that this thing IS one...
It's got no leaves at its base, no green in its stem... No petals for that matter!
And yet, I'm certain it must be a flower.
My mind says it is! Something about it...
The way it glistens...
The way it blooms...
You can classify it just by glancing at it, and yet looking further will do nothing but leave you with doubts...
It appears every full moon, completely vanishing between cycles.
It violates all laws that I'M aware of, and yet there it is.
Reliably so.
The first time I saw it, I was utterly entranced by its shimmering form.
So much so, that I moved my hand to caress it.
Immediately, as my hand made contact with the shape, I was stung.
I reeled back in an instant, but a pain shot through my arm regardless.
Upon my fingertip was a bruise of pure black.
The aching lasted days...
The color still never fully returning to my extremity.
My fingertip never really TOUCHED anything, though.
In fact, I believe it made contact... with NOTHING, in the most literal sense.
I believe this apparition, not to be a material shape at all...
Rather, I hypothesize it to be a complete LACK of matter.
The space it occupied was positively FREEZING, completely lacking heat.
I believe that's why it blackened my complexion and seared my nerves.
I still can't explain HOW it comes to be, though...
I haven't shown it to anyone else...
Not that I really have anyone worth presenting to...
But I get this feeling it'll stop appearing if I tried...
It feels... Almost shy...
I've talked to it before.
I know, not very scientific... But it listened.
I swear it did...
It shifted ever so slightly to the vibrations of my voice...
It makes me wonder what it's thinking... Does it think?
Does it know what it is?
Does it... experience things at all?
Am I just personifying a bizarre scientific anomaly? Most likely...
But still... I can't shake this feeling that it appears... for ME...