Coping picks up a large piece of glass with a bloody hand.

"She didn't love the flower, you fool. She loved you! And while it is unfair to make you love someone you cannot love, there was a good reason behind it! And it all traces back to that... she just was not good enough! And she never was! She never is, for anything! And that must be why I failed to grow anything in this building, save for this flower, because...!"

She trails off. Her voice is wavering.

"Because...!!