"There's nothing more horrible than the bite of the sprouter. Its deadly stinger spreads a green disease through every calcified pore on your body... ...leaving you veined with roots and flocked with grass... ...steadily growing thicker and thicker until you crash and bloom out... ...in a horrifying bouquet of pain and fragrant suffering... ...screaming until your mouth fills with petals and your nostrils shoot out thorny stems... ...and the bulbs sprout in your eyes... ...leaving you nothing but a patch of wildflowers on the ground, swarming with butterflies." —Salvador "Sal" Limones, explaining the sprouting process to Manuel "Manny" Calavera.