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Jie’s eyes stung, and the duel had nearly claimed her fingers, but
she’d finally vanquished the last of the onions. Just in time, too, as Lord
Shi’s seven-year-old son, Ren, reached for the platter of candies. He tripped
over a rock and stumbled toward the roasting pig in the fire pit. With a
sweep of her hand, she caught him by his silk sleeve, avoiding an unsavory
addition to dinner.
The servants’ collective gasp might’ve sucked all the air from the
outdoor kitchen.
Nursemaid Lan covered her mouth in a silent scream. When she
finally found her voice, her tone straddled anger and relief. “Sneaking out
again? If you don’t behave, Young Lord, the Black Fists will kidnap you
and turn you into a sneak-thief.”
Jie buried a snicker. Frustrated mothers leveled the same empty threat
in every home throughout the realm. Never had an unruly child been
spirited away in the middle of the night by the boogieman.
As the adopted daughter of the Black Lotus clan master, she’d know.
After all, most Black Fists were orphans like her; and rather than becoming
thieves, they served as the Emperor’s spies, defending the realm from
threats the citizenry would never know about.
Threats like Ren’s father, Lord Shi.
She straightened the wailing brat’s embroidered green robes. The only
thing the pudgy kid could defend the realm from was the legions of sweets
he ravaged. She knelt down and pressed his next conquest—a sugar pastry
—into his palm. With only the rebukes of the Black Lotus masters to draw
on, she summoned her most mothering voice. “No bones broken, no
tendons torn, you’re okay.”
Either her words and gentle tone had soothed him, or maybe the
candy could take credit. The lordling grinned with fat cheeks. Bits of
tongue pressed through the gaps in the lines of enameled soldiers. His adult
teeth might never replenish his ranks for his war of attrition against sweets.
After all, he’d likely die in the imperial army’s surprise assault.
“He’s a clever one. Always sneaking out.” The nursemaid’s gaze
raked over Jie’s dirty cotton dress, pausing at her pointed ears. “You’re new,
aren’t you?”
“Yes, Miss Lan. I’m Jie.” Jie sucked her lower lip and finger-combed
hair over her ears. It’d been so long since she’d mingled with non-clan
members, she forgotten how heavy the stares weighed. “I just started
yesterday.”
“I’m sorry. I’ve never seen an elf—half-elf—before.” Lan cast her
eyes down, then looked up with a smile too genuine for even a Black Lotus
master to fake. She pulled out two hairpins and proffered them. “This will
help hide your ears. If that’s what you want.”Jie stared at the pins, made of lacquer with inlaid mother-of-pearl.
They were probably the young woman’s most prized possessions. Perhaps it
was an act of atonement, or maybe she wanted to exchange pins to declare
sisterhood like girls often did. Not that Jie could part with the lockpicks and
throwing spikes that held up her hair.
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