22.🪻 Specimen: The Mourning Veil

🌿 Field Description Dark violet petals curl like funeral drapery, shrouding a pod shaped like a twisted mouth. Its lips part to reveal teeth, as if caught between whisper and laugh. From some angles it appears mournful, from others mocking. Strange purple orbs cling to its roots, believed to be seeds or offerings pulled from the soil. Said to bloom only in places of grief, where laments have lingered too long.

🧪 Habitat & Folklore Thrives near fresh graves or ruins where sorrow echoes. Folklore claims it feeds on mourning songs.

💀 Warnings Do not linger at dusk—its murmur can stir despair. Contact may bring dreams of endless funerals and unseen mourners.

🎨 Sculptor’s Note Hand-sculpted and one of a kind, captured with violet bloom, veined leaves, and sinister seed-orbs.