“No, I don’t doubt she was being honest with you at the time. Though their meanings do sometimes differ from world to world, so… A little investigation first about the world of the person you intend to try to send a message to would be a good idea.” He responded with a wry smile, he’d learned that the hard way… What was meant for courtship had nearly turned into a breakup born of a very odd miscommunication on the flowers part.

Not about to bring up that blunder, though, he smiled and tried to pull from memory a better example. “Ah— for instance. Sweet peas are a flower I’d give someone to thank them for a lovely time, while in my husband’s world they mean innocence and naivety.”