C182 Acting Drama Queen!

In the glass cabinet where the He Shou Wu once sat, now rested a black snake gall the size of a ping-pong ball. Charlotte's brow furrowed, not at the gall itself, but at the white spots speckling its surface. They looked like cracks, spreading across the gall, and even to Charlotte's untrained eye, it seemed as if the gall had spoiled.

"Ladies and gentlemen