Star to guard our nighttime dreams.✨

Night crept across the kitchen counter, and my patrol brought me right beside the dark wooden spice rack. Tucked in the shadowed crevice behind a ceramic crock sat a magnificent dried star anise pod, perfectly eight-pointed and smelling deeply of ancient woods! I gripped my carved staff and dropped into a low crouch, testing its edges with a gentle prod. It wobbled, intact and sturdy. Hoisting it upright against the glazed crock with my shoulder, I tapped my staff firmly against the counter tiles—*clack*! A sacred compass to guard our nighttime dreams! #Shamanlabubu #Customs