How to start a rumour

Begin with a strike
Then it will spark, then light, then fire.
Watch the king’s house burn,

The maidens murmur,
The servants wonder, the queen faints,
And the princess cries.

She is the mother
Of the true heir to the king’s throne,
The queen’s best handmaid.

Watch the castle burn
And the king buried in ashes
With one strike of word

Tochi