BSL A Bag of Air

[Sound of birdsong, and a hot-air-balloon gas burner]

[narrator] If you rise at dawn in a clear sky and during the month of March, they say you can catch a bag of air so intoxicated with the essence of spring that when it is distilled and prepared, it will produce an oil of gold, remedy enough to heal all ailments.

[sound of cicadas singing]

[sound of hot-air-balloon gas burner]

And as you rise at dawn to the upper ether, and lean out to catch the bag of air, they say you are trapping the ascending dew on its voyage from Earth to Heaven.

And if you repeat this process, each clear dawn for a thousand mornings, you will gather enough essence to fill a sealed flask, and to begin your manufacture.

[sound of hot-air-balloon gas burner]

And in your flask will be a delicacy of substance that is both Celestial and Terrestrial. And if you separate the distillate from the residue, each time and over many months, and until you reunite them at the end of your manufacture, they say you will have transformed your bag of air into a Golden Elixir; a preparation of etheric medicine capable of treating all disharmonies in the body and soul.

[sound of hot-air-balloon gas burner]