Herbalists' Cache damson

it was not the first time a man had lobbed a curse her way. qiao did not give it a second thought -- despite the truth in it.

she fled, as survivors do -- and wondered how many times before her demise she would run from the wickedness of men.

never once considering the wickedness she placed here; never once considering her own measure of evil that kept her heart pounding and her blackened blood from going thick with hate.