**The Pulse News 365** — Veridion City, May 7, 2026
A strange floral phenomenon is spreading through the Lower Grid. Neon-pink flowers are blooming overnight on concrete, billboards, and inside abandoned transit pods. The petals shimmer with faint holographic patterns that shift when observed.
Lucid Corp calls it adaptive urban flora. Witnesses say the blooms briefly replay fragmented memories from other timelines.
They wilt by dawn, leaving glowing crystalline dust.
