The Enforcer Hunting My Pen Name Reads Every Chapter novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: A Warm Hand
The Master's chamberlain had said alone, and Mo Chengyan did not argue the word.
He argued everything else.
He walked up the mountain stair at Shen's left, with no pace between them and no badge on his coat.
Every disciple on the stair saw the two of them, bowed, and found something else to look at.
Mo did not slow.
"He wants you away from the boxes," Mo said, at the Second Gate. "He wants you in his hall without a witness."
"Yes."
"I do not like it."
"You have said so." Shen's tone was dry. "Eleven times."
"It will be twelve at the Summit."
The grey cord was wound twice round his left wrist, tied off with a knot he had made with his teeth.
Shen had looked at it more than once that morning, and had not said what it did to him.
At the Summit gate the flagstones were swept and bare, and there was no groove in them.
Mo stopped at the edge of the terrace.
He looked at the stone.
He set his boot heel against it and drew it sideways, once, and it scraped a pale line from one post to the other.
"There is now."
Shen looked at the scratch.
"The Summit Guard will have it mended by noon."
"It will have done its work by noon." Mo stood on the line with his hands at his sides. "I will be here, Sword Saint. I am not an officer. I am a man standing on a stone."
Shen did not touch him in the sight of the gate.
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