{"id":45505,"date":"2023-06-25T16:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T21:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/?p=45505"},"modified":"2023-06-25T21:51:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T02:51:51","slug":"you-might-become-rooted-to-the-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2023\/06\/25\/you-might-become-rooted-to-the-path\/","title":{"rendered":"You might become rooted to the Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Path-illogical: Blooming Mad by Kris P. Kreme<\/p><\/div>
\nDaisy has been getting more and more agitated the entire thousand mile journey to some mysterious mountain in the middle of nowhere. <\/p>\n

Her brilliant boyfriend Vincent is wanting to prove some crackpot theory about plants and animals sharing a common DNA at some point in history, which has led him to the crest of Mount Madness.<\/p>\n

But will an angry walk down a certain path bring Daisy closer to her boyfriend’s research than she ever cared to go? And will Vincent go his own kind of mad, walking the path to find her?<\/p>\n

Go Blooming Mad as the June Path-illogical event series concludes.<\/p>\n

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Daisy’s boyfriend Vincent may just be an actual botany genius, but what he excels in at the university and scientific theory, he absolutely fails horribly at in a relationship. The proof is in the fact she has spent a thousand miles on the road taking driving shifts just to get the two of them to the middle of nowhere, where all Vincent can get even slightly excited about are plants.<\/p>\n

Vincent has some seemingly crazy idea that there exists a genetic link between mankind and plants, that at some point in the past plants and animals shared a certain DNA trait that if he finds absolute proof can set his career for life. But when he told Daisy they could get away from it all and spend a weekend driving through gorgeous wilderness… this isn’t exactly the romantic weekend she had in mind.<\/p>\n

It’s very clear from his excitement upon reaching Mount Madness, that all Vincent wants is some rare plant to prove his crazy ideas right, something to put his name in the history books and make him the envy of crypto-botanical societies everywhere.<\/p>\n

Vincent claims that a root sample from the crew that cleared a certain unfinished access road on Mount Madness contained animal DNA, and has taken his girlfriend for this trip in order to find the source of that root sample, to discover what clearly remained undiscovered and could completely redefine the differences between man and plant.<\/p>\n

But all of this has pushed Daisy too far, having no interest in his claims that he wanted his girl by his side when he made such a supposedly great scientific discovery. She’s tired of coming second to plants, of listening to Vincent go on and on about some stupid theory of plants and animals being one.<\/p>\n

Angrilly storming off, Daisy has no idea that the path she walks is going to bring her and Vincent closer in ways she never could imagine. <\/p>\n

Frustrated, angry, and in the middle of nowhere, Daisy stomps along the trail, accidentally putting her foot in a hole. But when she can’t get her foot out, when the ground seems to slowly suck both legs into it, her lower body fusing together, somehow rooting into the soil, Daisy may just become something of a true daisy herself.<\/p>\n

As she finds herself mutated in freakishly strange ways, energized only by the sun shining down on her, Daisy knows she needs nourishment and food. Will Vincent have just the food she needs when he comes walking the same cursed path looking for her?<\/p>\n

Suffering his own kind of madness, ready to bring new meaning to taking his girlfriend seriously, Vincent makes the discovery of a lifetime, and celebrates by enjoying that lovely daisy discovery over and over again.<\/p>\n

The path leads to many places but so rarely does one become another part of that path as the Path-illogical special June event series concludes in a tale so crazy it’s Blooming Mad.<\/p>\n

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Daisy has been getting more and more agitated the entire thousand mile journey to some mysterious mountain in the middle of nowhere. Her brilliant boyfriend Vincent is wanting to prove some crackpot theory about plants and animals sharing a common DNA at some point in history, which has led him to the crest of Mount … <\/p>\n

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