Chapter 7
drooping flower nods
it knows more than you or I
hush! this song has words
Senses heightened, thoughts whirling, I went home knowing that I would never be able to sleep. I tried to banish all thoughts of Innis and Kuma from my head, but even my worries about Henry weren’t enough to distract me for long.
A night like this called for my mother’s night potion.
A blend of dreamless poppy, lavender, and kavakaa thrice blessed by Yuki’s light – an irregular moon for irregular thoughts. A few drops would relax the muscles and mind. A few more would send me into a deep sleep, thanks to the dreamless poppy, the bright and wild cousin of the opioid poppies so many had fought over millennia ago. Now, those poppies had been eradicated, burned from the planets in an effort to contain th
