The Rival Who Killed Me Remembers Too novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Cells
They confined Woo-jin to the annex, with two Iron Crane disciples on the door.
He knew both of them.
He had taught one of them the Crane's second form, and the boy could not look at him.
Woo-jin sat on the mat on the left side of the paper screen for exactly as long as it took to stop shaking.
Then he looked at the empty mat on the right.
It was warm in his mind still, with a dent in it the shape of a very large man.
He got up and put his forehead against the wall.
Around midnight someone knocked on the shutter.
"Senior brother," a whisper said. "It's me. Don't talk, I have dumplings."
Jun-seo's round face appeared over the sill, and behind it a sack.
Woo-jin let him in through the window.
Jun-seo stood in the middle of the room with his cheeks pink from the climb and his hair standing up in spikes.
"I distracted the guards," he said, proudly. "Both of them."
"I told them you had stomach pain and needed the privy."
"I said if you did it in front of them, it would be on their conscience."
"They're arguing about it."
"Jun-seo."
"Also I stole the key."
He held it up on a loop of string.
Woo-jin stared at him.
"The jailer is at the feast," Jun-seo said. "Everyone is at the feast."
"They're all eating rather a lot of duck. I have never seen the Alliance so unobservant."
"The cells?"
"The east wall, down the stairs behind the kitchen. I know a way."
He grinned, and then, unexpectedly, his face crumpled.
"I know it's true," he said. "What the Deputy Chief said. About him, and you."
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