[The Medicine Seller is standing calmly, somewhere in the hedge maze.]
Such interesting rumors I've heard lately.
[He pauses, a little longer than even he typically does in the middle of a thought.]
If only... I could remember them.
[He looks around, in a way that might, perhaps, seem to indicate that he also wishes he remembered how he got
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I was gonna ask you somethin'...
...Oh, yeah. Have you been feelin'...I dunno, kinda under the weather, lately? [For himself, Stango sounds slightly winded; he's really starting to feel the physical exhaustion.]
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Have you?
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[Oh.]
Yeah. Yeah, I been gettin' tired pretty easy.
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No. [He's a liar. But he's not a bad one. You kind of can't be, to look like him and convince pre-Meiji Japanese people you're not just human, but Japanese.]
However... I have been hearing such complaints. Recently.
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[...That's getting annoying. Low growl.]
Must be an event.
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I have some treatments which may be of use.
[If he can remember which ones they are. Which is usually not a problem, but...]
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[Huff.]
You know what, let's talk about this later.
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Then, if you'll excuse me...
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