The Immortal Emperor Returns novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Last Night
Shuang was sitting on the gate of Pine Court when he came home.
She had a split lip, a torn sleeve and the Chancellery's black cart-blanket around her shoulders.
She was swinging one boot against the stone and eating a cold dumpling.
Chu stopped in the snow.
"How," he said.
"The cellar door was locked. I have a silver comb." She chewed. "The guard outside had a very bad bladder."
"You walked out."
"Through the sacrificial kitchens. They were making ten thousand buns for the Offering. Nobody looks twice at a woman covered in flour."
"You are not covered in flour."
"I was. I took it off." She hopped down. "You walked into the Chancellery by the front door."
"Yes."
"Alone."
"Yes."
"With the whole Council in session and three hundred men with spears."
Her voice rose.
"You idiot. You utter idiot. You nearly tore your own body open on that doorstep."
"They took you."
"I took myself back!"
He picked her up.
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