One Pill a Night to Keep the War God Alive novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Last Pill
The ninth bolt came down in a single white column as wide as the shelf.
Zhiyi held the little bronze furnace over her head with both hands and let it fall in.
It was the size of a rice bowl.
It should have burst.
It rang, and the whole sky poured down into it, and the bronze went white-hot under her palms.
She did not let go.
She heard her skin hiss and felt nothing.
"Zhiyi!" shouted Juehan.
"Stay there!"
She dropped to her knees on the rock with the furnace in her lap.
The thunder inside it was alive.
It beat against the lid, and she did what she had done once before, at a cost.
She drew the fire up out of her belly and let it pour down both arms.
It came as it had on the night of the damp coal, only a hundred times more.
Her palm-fire met the thunder, and the two of them wound around each other and did not fight.
She felt each of the crumbs she had eaten answering in her blood, one after another.
The heat settled.
The roaring in the furnace went small and tight and bright.
"Eighty breaths," she whispered, because she had counted every pill of her life that way.
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