Chapter 51 · for subscribers
The valley could not read that name. It had been copied off a broken peg on a Hezui shrine step with a straight edge, stroke for stroke, the way a man copies a seal he is frightened of getting wrong. Nine hundred years ago a girl of nineteen who could make water run uphill had owned it, and six pairs of hands had been offered it since, and refused.
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