Flaky held the pink flower in her hands, moved it towards her nose, and took a couple of small, gentle sniffs. She expected to take in the flower's sweet scent, but what she actually felt was a small amount of pollen making it into her nose. Once she felt it, her eyes immediately shot open and she removed the flower from her face. She noticed that her nose was twitching, and her nostrils were beginning to flare up. She sniffed once, but that didn't seem to help; in fact, it only made it worse. She needed to sneeze.
"Haah... oh, no..." Flaky really didn't like sneezing at all. Whether she witnessed someone else doing it or she herself needed to do it, it always made her feel uncomfortable. She was afraid that if she sneezed, even once, then other characters would overhear. She had to try not to sneeze. "Haaaah, aaaahhh..." Flaky inhaled twice, and then hastily put a forefinger under her nose. She didn't notice that she had accidentally dropped the flower in her hands, but that was because she was more focused on stopping the sneeze. However, she could still feel it twitching, and a few extra hitched breaths slipped out. Each one seemed to make her nose itch more and more. "HaaaaaAAAAAHHH... AAAAHHHHHH..."
She couldn't take it anymore. She just had to remove her finger from her face. She then tilted her head as far back as she could, taking a final breath as she let the sneeze escape from her. "AAAAAAAAHHHHH-Chooooooooo!"
Flaky shot her head forwards as she released the sneeze that she had been struggling with. Surprisingly, it turned out to be much smaller and quieter than she had expected. But it felt like it was going to be the biggest one of her life... As long as she had released it, however, she didn't have to worry about it. Flaky sniffled and rubbed her nose with a forefinger, and then looked around to see if anyone had seen her sneeze. Luckily for her, there was nobody else in the area besides her, and she sighed in relief. Had anyone seen her sneeze, she'd almost definitely be embarrassed.
Homer's Ill Iliad & Odd Sea Odyssey (420 pages) is an adult satire/parody rewrite of the classic stories of the 10 year Trojan War and of the 10 year adventure of Odysseus trying to return home to his native Ithaca.
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