Contaminated: Cosmic Fairy Tales

The people of my planet are plagued by a devastating genetic curse. To treat the disease’s effects, we’ve turned to cultivating a rare flower. That’s my occupation: raising and studying this flower. That’s precisely what I’m doing the daycycle that an alien drops into our research plot, approaches our plant… 

And cuts my flower’s head off, stealing the bloom.She stole our only hope. I can’t let her get away.