Chapter Five: A Kiss Takes This Life Away

Wen Mo picked up the flute. "Intimacy loosens the contract. Each memory you recover from Shen Zhao costs one from Shen Wu." "Can I get them back?" "By returning every true name." Machinery turned beneath the well. Lu Bainian rose from the darkness, followed by forty-two figures in white masks. "Good," he said. "The Keeper, the Guardian, and the Door are all here."