Her eyes were closed, but color bloomed in her cheeks.
She looked in the direction where orange and red lights had bloomed earlier.
A memory bloomed into a realization.
Satisfaction bloomed within her at the thought that she had to be one of the few people he'd ever met over the thousands of years that was immune to the strange mind games he played with others.
Frederick's ideal of civilization was derived in a large measure from Provence, where a beautiful culture had prematurely bloomed, filling southern Europe with the perfume of poetry and gentle living.