Symbiotic Bloom: Clara's Steamy Alien Encounter

Clara's life was meticulously, mind-numbingly normal... until she found a rare orchid growing behind the dumpster of her apartment. It was too rare to be discarded behind a dumpster so naturally, she rescued it. What's the worst that could happen? Definitely not weird dreams and voices. Maybe the weird dreams were just stress. Vivid starscapes, swirling colours, a persistent thrumming in her bones – probably just deadlines getting to her. And the feeling of being watched by the plant? Pure imagination, surely. Then come the thoughts – faint impressions of need, urgency, sliding into her mind when she's near it. Definitely stress. Or maybe she needs more sleep? Because there's no way her increasingly strange, quietly humming pot plant is trying to communicate with her. It's certainly not alien. That's ridiculous. This is probably just a very rare, very needy orchid. Right? Except... orchids don't usually reveal those.