We Share One Heart Demon and One Bed novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: A Night Apart
"Then we don't," Jinghan said.
Luo lifted his head from Jinghan's stomach.
"We try one night apart," Jinghan said. "Just one, to see what it costs. Maybe it's only pain."
"Maybe it's more than pain."
"Then we'll know that too."
The spirit said nothing, but Jinghan felt her listening in the dark under his ribs, small and very still.
They climbed the twelve steps with the water closing behind them.
Tang Yu was waiting at the lip of the pool with a lantern and a face full of questions.
"Master, you've been down there since noon, are you..."
"Nobody comes into the lodge tonight," Jinghan said. "Not you, not Su Ning, not anyone. Whatever you hear."
"What will I hear?"
"Me, probably."
Luo took the iron chain off his sword belt and walked out into the rubble of the Gate.
He wound it twice around a fallen pillar, then around his own wrists, and snapped the lock.
"A hundred paces," he said. "I can't walk through a pillar."
"You could break it."
"I'm going to try very hard not to."
Jinghan went into the lodge and shut the door.
The moon came up at the sixth bell.
He felt it before he saw it, a cold finger laid on the top of his spine.
Then the lotus lit, and the pain came down.
It was nothing like the first night.
That had been a fist.
This was a flood, slow and scalding, pouring up from his belly and filling every hollow in him.
He got as far as the bed.
His qi went wild, and every sinew in his arms jerked.
He tasted river water in his mouth, thick and green.
When he opened his eyes the room was full of it.
It stood at the windowsills and rose past the stove, black and silent, with the candle flames burning upside down on the surface.
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