Chapter Four: The Stripped Light

He threw Shen a route map. Three locations were circled in red: Broken Ring Overpass, Paperfold Primary School, and the Old South Fire Tower. A fourth circle enclosed every public screen in the city. Beside it was a time—midnight, forty-eight hours from now. “The Redactor's list,” Daystar said. A hoarse navigation voice issued from the rider's empty throat. “Not a list. A program.” Above them, the giant displays of the real city turned white together. Bai Shu appeared on every screen. “In forty-eight hours,” he announced to both cities, “witness the one true hero.”