<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/66/ShinMinAvi.png)</div><strong>Name :</strong>Shin Min-hee<br/><strong>Element :</strong>Earth<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time :</strong>Palace, evening<br/><strong>Tagging :</strong>Judge Fu Li Shin, Lord Chiang<br/><hr/>Fu Li Shin needn’t have worried about Min-hee.  She was all business when she entered Lord Chiang’s chambers.  She didn’t bother acknowledging the scattering concubines and gave a cursory glance at the remedies laid about him.  Some of them had healing qualities and may have done something to help keep the Lord alive long enough for Min-hee to be brought before him, but they would not cure him.  Lord Chiang’s breath was shallow and his body was covered in a sheen of fever sweat as he tried to fight off the poison in his veins.  He was strong, which was good.  He would need that strength.<br/><br/>Min-hee took the ampule from Judge Fu and examined it carefully, sniffing at the container and wrinkling her nose.  She recognized the scent, burnt ghost cap.  A deadly enough fungus in the wild, but concentrated and mixed with golden dart frog venom it produced one of the deadliest poisons known to man and located together in only one place.  The Jeju Forest.<br/><br/>“You were right to find me,” Min-hee said feeling the warm breath on the back of her neck.  If not for the dire situation presenting itself she might have shivered at the sensation given the nature of the recreation she had so recently been deprived of.  “This poison originated from the Jeju Forest and has only one known antidote, the bloom of the Earth Demon Lotus.”  The petals of the Earth Demon Lotus grew amid the hanging graves of Liu Shen.  It was a cursed place of restless spirits were the Jeju Forest met the Peaks of the Forgotten Ancestors.  One touch of the petals could kill a grown man, burning him from the inside with wracking fever and hemorrhaging.<br/><br/>“I need gloves from the Lord’s blacksmith and a pair of his tongs. Fetch me some hot water as well.” Min-hee instructed and glanced at the Judge breathing down her neck. “And some room to work, unless you wish to draw this poison from his body,” she cared little that she was ordering those well above her station around like servants.<br/><br/>Min-hee removed the pack she carried with her and from it drew a lacquered case that held the few unguents and poultices she carried with her.  Within this case rested a much smaller case of dark cherry wood, locked and sealed with wax.  She removed this case and set it carefully on a cloth covered table next to her.<br/><br/>When the items were brought to her she tugged the gloves on carefully before breaking the seal of the cherry box that contained the petal of a flower, so deep crimson as to be almost black.  It glistened with some sort of oily substance.  Min-hee took the blacksmiths tongs and with then removed the leaf from its container placing it in the cup of hot water, letting it soak for a time before removing it and placing it back in the cherry wood box with and the tongs down next to it.  Min-hee withdrew a thin hollow tube of bamboo and dipped it barely into the now crimson tea.  She placed her finger over the end of the tube holding a drop of water in place.<br/><br/>“Open his mouth.” She instructed and very carefully removed the tube and brought it to Lord Chiang’s open mouth letting only one drop touch his tongue.  The reaction was sudden and violent.  Lord Chiang’s body convulsed once going completely rigged, every muscle shown taught against his skin as if they were trying to burst from his body, then went limp, but his breathing deepened and steadied.  Min-hee placed the tube alongside the tongs and carefully removed her gloves.  She folded the cloth around the cherry wood box, tongs, tube and gloves and tied the ends together.<br/><br/>“Burn them.” She said handing the bundle to Fu Li Shin. “Somewhere the fumes will not reach people or animals.  Once the water clears it can be thrown out safely.”  Min-hee placed the larger wooden box back into her pack and turned to regard Ta Mei Huai and Wu Cai.   “I have done all that I can do.  The rest will be up to Lord Chiang, but he appears strong and survived the Earth Demon’s Kiss, which bodes well.  If he wakes by this evening he will recover.”<br/>