Chapter 2 · free to read
The guests fled before midnight. But the doors of the Yun mansion do not open until dawn. So I stayed. I had agreed to a trial.
A locked door in a house that cannot be left is not hiding from anything outside it.
The incense did not save her. The dead do not fear their own altar.
One name given to spare herself. And a second name I had not asked for, falling free.
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