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Deep within a palace hall, Yan Yu in her azure robes studied the crow and spoke in a gentler tone, “Sheng'er, the ghost inside you is no ordinary thing. I have a fair idea of where it came from.”
“Papa said it’s a ghost that escaped from the Ghost Sealing Pagoda back in the Age of the Ancient Gods,” the crow replied.
Yan Yu nodded but said no more about the ghost’s origins. Instead, she continued, “Come with me. Removing this ghost will take patience, a great deal of it.”
As she spoke, her slender form rose lightly. The pale white of her ankle flashed briefly beneath the undulating sheer veil of a hundred ghosts, before disappearing once more.
Chin raised, she dragged the trailing azure veil behind her as she rose to her feet. Then she glanced at the crow.
“Come.”
The crow flapped its wings happily and landed on her shoulder.
Once they stepped outside the hall, the little girls in red and blue reappeared from the mist, emerging suddenly from the grey haze. They fell into step behind Yan Yu.
Both girls wore beaming smiles, and their expressions suggested they had developed some degree of sentience...
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