cordie (candygram challenge)

#Candygram_2024

A small book lands outside the dormitory for Cordelia Rosenthal.

It's a candygram, by technicality, with candied rose petals and a bulk bag of Skittles set by the side of the book, which has been bound rather skilfully. There are also some flower seeds in a small bag that are revealed when the bag is opened: peonies.

The book contains poetry selections and some song recommendations (mostly Hozier, but October prefers to include shared interests), with a final poem at the end, written in Spanish:

eng:

A rose escapes from my lungs and falls into my lap.

I pick up the flower tenderly and kiss it as if it were you.

I wash the blood from the surface and prepare to present it to the world.

Cordelia.

Your name is soft and every time I say it a thorn es through my lungs,

Breathless as I am.

The roses of my blood escape and form a bouquet.

Shining with the red liquid of love.

My withered heart blooms.