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During their tense conversation, Elise confessed: her mother, a retired botanist, had once helped the gallery hide the Ember of Avalon in plain sight. The "roots" in the message pointed to a potted tree in the gallery’s gift shop—its base now hollowed out to reveal the stolen jewel. But why steal it now? Elise explained her mother’s terminal illness: she’d arranged for the theft to ensure the Ember would be sold to fund experimental treatment.