Mulan's Journal of Adventures in China

A compact journal bound in cracked crimson leather, reinforced with dark wooden boards and closed by a small jade clasp. Its pages are filled with elegant ink sketches, hand-drawn maps, pressed flowers, military observations, recipes, travel notes, and personal accounts of Mulan's experiences throughout China. The ink never fades, and blank pages subtly rearrange themselves to keep related places, people, and events together. A silk bookmark bears the embroidered image of a red-crested crane.