"The Ageless Rose"

#0071. In the Waiting Room, the anteroom of a secret place, the Ageless Rose blooms perpetually behind glass. It blossoms in the vitrine, never touched, never watered, never seeing any sunlight. It is the thing he wants to be. Isolated and beautiful. You can see through the window, but inside the world is self contained. The Ageless Rose, if it can see at all, cannot see through the barrier. For all it knows, it is the only thing in the world.