Flower sellers setting up near the cemetery gate before dawn received an impressive delivery of thirty-six empty vases and not a single flower. The driver checked the order sheet twice and confirmed that the vases were exactly where they were meant to be. The flowers, according to a second line on the sheet, were travelling on another cart from the opposite side of Ventorn. Nobody had noticed that the two halves of the same order had been assigned different routes.
Rather than leave the stall bare, the sellers arranged the empty vases in neat rows while the driver went to find the missing cart. The display was unexpectedly elegant. Three early visitors stopped to ask whether the empty vessels were part of a remembrance installation. One woman bought a vase before the flowers arrived, explaining that she already knew what she intended to put in it and saw no reason to wait for logistics.
The flower cart appeared seventeen minutes later, having been delayed by a closed service lane. The vases were filled and the morning trade continued normally. The stall owner says future orders will specify that flowers and containers should, whenever practical, arrive in the same part of the city.
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