Ming Tao took a pause to settle what Mira had just revealed to him in his system. His fists clenched but he tried to keep a leveled head in front of her. Mira had not yet told him what she understood about the leaves and the great use or significance of them all, but he imagined that it must be something really important for it to be exchanged with blood, or worse, lives, but if this was indeed true, it would have spread across their region like wild fire.
"Do you remember the rumour?" Mira asked, breaking Ming Tao's reverie.
"What rumour?" Ming Tao asked.
Mira swallowed. She was not the old owner of this body but she wondered if she needed to remind Ming Tao first that she had changed before saying this. "The rumour that circulated that I ate beast people and beast cubs." Mira blurted out.
