Though the death had been foretold in advertisements, which announced an impending tragedy that would change things forever, few seemed prepared for the bloody eventuality of Flower's end, her tiny head swollen from infection, the melancholy music that accompanied her never-to-be-resumed breaths.
Such an eventuality looked scarily close on Tuesday night.
Iain Cochrane, chief executive of Glasgow Prestwick, said: "We carefully plan and train for this kind of eventuality and I am relieved it ended safely and without incident".
It is not an eventuality that anybody could have anticipated at the end of last season, when the team finished fifth, or, indeed, felt worthy of the lusty celebrations that followed the full-time whistle in west London.
I still think that if we knew the extent to which Apple has prepared for other eventualities and projects it ended up not pursuing it wouldn't be that surprising that it's doing a talent grab of this magnitude in automotive tech.
This continuum can be seen as diminuendo-crescendo from thingness to eventuality or vice versa, depending on from which end one starts.
Although Iraq maintained the fifth-largest land army in the world at the time, preparing for every eventuality inevitably exposed a weakness, the lightly defended western end of the Iraqi line, around which the coalition ultimately attacked.
Villiers said: "The Department for Transport had always anticipated that the Great Western franchise could end in 2013 and had catered for this eventuality in its refranchising programme.
The service offers end-to-end encryption to ensure data security, and is prepared to handle the eventuality of power failure or connectivity interruption.
In such an eventuality, the removal of the tyrant holds the strong possibility of ending the horrors taking place under his rule.
"We're at that perfect inflection point where we don't know for sure if the world is coming to an end or if we've already priced in that eventuality," said Art Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies.
