In the shock of it, Han Lei ended up going to his grandaunt's body and tried to shake her in the hopes that she would wake and tell him that this was all just a nightmare.
It was in the middle of shaking her that he saw something fall from the sleeves of her robe, a petal of rainbow mist peony. To anyone else, that petal was of no significance even to the rest of the Han family, had they been the ones to see it, it would have no meaning to them, but to Han Lei, it held a message, something his grandaunt had left for him as only he would recognize it.
When he was small whenever he wanted to get something from his parents, if he knew they would refuse him, he would always try to enlist his grandaunt's help but it never came from free. His grandaunt had been a seasoned herbologist who had reached the blue-grade tier. The ink they used for their talisman was made from the starry ink vine plants she grew. Everything his mother knew about nurturing spiritual herbs from his grandaunt.
