Things worth dying (and living) for

Peter does his research well after he coughs up his first petal.Technically called pulmoflorosis, originally coined ‘blooming lung’ in the frontier ages, and more fantastically, the Flowering Death, Hanahaki is an incredibly rare disease. Not just because it is by nature, but love in and of itself is rare; real love. Especially the kind this disease feeds off. As far as Peter knows, he’s the youngest person to ever have it. There’s that Parker luck again. People don’t love this deeply in this specifically nuanced way for so long with such resignation as to warrant dying from it, and they certainly don’t do it in high school. Kids don’t fall in love. Not like this. People don’t meet the love of their life- ‘cause that’s what it is- in 10th grade.Peter gets it in 10th grade.