Aug 18, 2010 21:14
[When the video flickers on, one can see pale, spidery hands gripping a pestle. A mortar is on a garish kimono. The hands are moving.]
[Grinding]
[Grinding]
[Grinding]
[An abrupt flicker, and there is paper, folded neatly into a triangle.]
[The fuse is lit]
[A slow arc of paper and gunpowder, a sharp explosion, and a howl of pain.]
[The Medicine Seller returns to his grinding.]