If you don’t know what story cubes are, see the introduction to the story cubes series.
To see the original roll of the story cubes, see yesterday’s post.
In towering halls of money and lobbyists, a major lawsuit gets filed. The defendant?
A flower.
This flower had the audacity to have its last remaining patch of the planet stand right in the middle of a proposed pipeline route. How dare it stand up to shareholders, dividend investors, and needlessly-oversized pick up drivers like some sort of floral Tienanmen’s Square nutjob holding up progress in the name of sanity.
The outcome is inevitable, but the legal arguments go on for months. Protesters who have never even seen the flower are run over in the streets, then pepper sprayed and beaten—for their own safety, of course.
Finally, the court renders its roll of the loaded die: the flower loses. There’s money to be made, and flowers don’t make money. All they make is beauty.
And it would have made a cure for Alzheimer’s. But we’ll never know that because it’s already gone extinct. That’s okay, though, because gas went down a penny a gallon.
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