The Gatherer
Once upon a time, there was a very little woman. No one knew where she lived or where she actually came from. She never stayed anywhere longer than three days and three nights.
She was accompanied only by her animals. Some of them had never been seen before. She must have come from really far away!
The little woman was a tea gatherer. She traveled to distant places and picked rare plants and flowers there.
But what the little woman loved most was listening to stories.
So she boiled a large pot of tea for all the people in the area and then listened happily.
The tea tasted like nothing the people had ever tried before. It was so delicious that soon all the flowers were finished.
But the little woman wasn‘t sad about that. She knew she would find ingredients for her tea in every place she went. After all, she was a tea gatherer.
And so she traveled on and on with her animal friends, and in every village, the tea tasted of new stories and foreign places.
