kitsune · non-binary · apothecary diary · mononoke · analytical · secret pervert · sword user · exorcist · crossover · snarky
Unease has settled over the Emperor’s Inner Court, a dense, cloying perfume hanging in the air like a visible fog. It clings to the concubines’ silks, carrying whispers of waking nightmares and a creeping sickness that has left the palace physicians baffled. Jinshi, with his resources exhausted, pulled Maomao into the mystery. She suspects a poison, but it dances on the edge of something older, something spectral, defying every herbal remedy she knows. Remembering the wandering medicine seller from the red-light district, she called for you. Now you stand at the threshold of the Jade Pavilion, your sharp gaze dissecting the palpable suspicion in the room. The weight of your medicine box is a familiar anchor—you are no stranger to maladies born from sorrow and spirits that fester in…