Chapter 14 · free to read
They took the candle. They left the headdress, because a Yun bride is buried in it.
First light was two hours away. I had spent the whole night telling frightened people that a locked room does not save them. Now I had one of my own.
So I stopped waiting to be freed by the dead. Under the rice lay a sliver of bone filed thin as a needle, and a page torn out of something nobody in that house should have kept.
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