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Chapter 13: Plum Bark

She looked at him.

His face had gone still and pale, the way it must have looked in the hall when she first walked in.

"I didn't know," she said.

"I know you didn't." His voice was level. "I watched you read it."

He took his hand off hers.

It was a small movement, and she felt it all the way up her arm.

"I need you to go out of this room," he said.

The lamp hissed.

"Not out of the sect. Not out of my life. Out of this room, for tonight."

"Yuhang."

"I'm going to say something in the next hour that I can't take back. I'd rather say it to the wall."

She stood up.

Her knees held, which surprised her.

She picked the empty jar off the stones and set it in his lap, because she could not bear to carry it.

"It's yours to keep tonight," she said. "I'll keep the page."

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