If not the Queen...

What is the source?

[Yes, the Medicine Seller is stumped enough to start mining you all for ideas.]

[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 ( Read more... )

[The Medicine Seller, dressed as ever in his flamboyant robes, is seated seiza style beside the Zen garden, with a cup in his hands and his medicine chest on the ground beside him.]

It seems I have arrived at an... unusual time.

[No surprises there, really. Does he ever show up anywhere except at extremely weird times? He's silent for a few ( Read more... )