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Two days later.
A bolt of white light streaked across the skies of Silkfloss Province and plunged toward a dusty market town.
Inside that flash rode a swordswoman with ice-cold eyes, Gu Xuejian.
Her face looked placid enough, yet an unspoken urgency smoldered in her gaze. In her left hand she clutched a fingernail-sized shard of jade, faintly aglow. The nearer she flew to the town, the brighter it burned.
The stone was called moon-twin jade.
Split into two halves, each piece could sense the other. The moment one wearer took it off, the partner stone warned its twin with an ominous throb. And if the two halves met again, it replayed the final scene the other wearer had witnessed.
Gu Xuejian carried one half. Her disciple, Ping'an, wore the other.
Master and disciple knew each other’s habits by heart. If Ping'an was traveling, the jade never left his person. If he was in a city, nightfall...
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