Of course not. I had seen others in Saeng Song carrying roses by the bundle long before I stumbled upon this one; I'd taken it as a flower someone had misplaced, nothing more. I know not how one would even make a trap of such a thing or to what end...

[To say nothing of what the rose had actually been doing to him since.]

Ah, not quite... I had seen them falling here and there ever since I had taken the rose, but I only came to realize they fell in my wake when I made to fetch my key from my pocket and saw the petals still littering the floor at my feet.