Breath Basket: The Palace Healer Who Repairs Power

Tsumugi Torii was tying bamboo strips at dawn when a man with a ruined power flow arrived at her workroom door. She fixed damage that other healers had given up on, and she did it with steady hands that hid how tired she was. Her baskets could hold water and keep a person’s breath inside the weave, which made her work prized by nobles and feared by clerks. After her master died, the old order in the healing hall began to crack, and every disciple wanted a different future. Tsumugi only wanted clean tools, honest patients, and enough time to finish one basket before the next visitor came with a secret she had to touch with her own qi.