The Enforcer Hunting My Pen Name Reads Every Chapter novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Floor
They ran the stair.
Shen had not run in front of anyone since he was twenty-seven.
He ran it now in the grey hour before the sun, with Mo Chengyan at his left and the mist lying thin on the steps.
His hair was loose.
Nobody had had the time to bind it, and nobody had wished to.
The mark on his right shoulder pulled against the cloth with every stride, and he was glad of it.
Mo had sent a runner down to Liang's cellar before he had his coat on, where four of the Hall's loyal young officers had sat up two nights beside the boxes, waiting for a word.
Now they were bringing twelve oak boxes up the north slope on the freight rail, on two low carts.
They came into the Great Hall's court at the second bell, damp to the knees.
The Assembly was seated.
Three hundred disciples knelt in rows on the stone floor.
The Inspector of the Alliance sat at a side table with a brush and a lamp.
The five Peak Lords' places stood in a row before the dais, and four of them were filled.
The fifth was Shen's, at the end, and the aisle to it was empty.
Nobody had told the disciples to leave it so.
Rows had edged apart, a hand's breadth at a time.
A path ran down the middle of three hundred people to the Sword Saint's cushion.
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