The Silent Ruler of the Morning Dew

Plant-like Creature on Lily Pad with Tea Cup
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In the heart of a forgotten garden, where the mist dwells longest, lives a being that hardly anyone ever sees – unless you're at the right pond at the right hour. It appears at dusk, when the light is still gray and the world whispers anew. You recognize it by its posture. It sits upright on the largest water lily pad, its legs crossed, a dainty cup of the finest porcelain in its hands, as if it were the lord of a very silent kingdom.
Folivernax dignifloris – that's what it was once named by a half-forgotten botanist who felt more than it understood. A leaf creature, it was said, half plant, half memory, with a beard of silver moss threads and eyes that are never fully open, but also never fully closed. It doesn't speak. Nor does it need to. Its gesture – the daily tea time in the mist – is language enough.
The tea in its cup is never warm. You know that. It's a brew of morning dew, pollen, and silence, brewed at the hour when no bird is singing. But that doesn't bother him. It's not about taste. It's about dignity. About ritual. About the moment when the sun cautiously stretches its fingers through the mist and feels its way across the water.
It's said that he once invited people. He, who never spoke, is said to have folded small leaves and written on them with dewdrops. Tiny invitations that the wind carried away. The frogs didn't come. The beetles were too busy. The birds forgot. Only the dragonflies appeared—punctual, shimmering, dancing like glass in motion. They perched around his leaf, hovering at a polite distance, waiting, not knowing what for.
He nodded to them. Very slightly. Then he raised his cup.
It was a celebration.
Since then, he's been alone again. Every morning. Always at the same hour. As if he were the last thought of a dreamer who woke too soon. And perhaps that is exactly what it is: a reminder of a world where time flowed more slowly – and tea never had to be hot to start the day.

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