Chapter 11 · free to read
Rei called it directed mourning. The embers came off her with edges on them now.
Two ranked bouts in one night. The tiers stopped chanting halfway through the second and simply watched.
There was a room above the top tier that nobody at the bottom of the ladder knew was a room.
Ren's tags. Confiscated the night she signed, six weeks ago, and never once mentioned since.
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