Vermilion Bird spoke up in surprise after hearing the full poem from Gao Yang, “You heard it from the dream, too?”0

“Not in the dream.” Gao Yang shook his head. “Sir Jiang told it to me before his death. He said that my grandmother told him.” After a pause, he added, “I asked him what it meant, but he didn’t say anything—maybe he didn’t have the time.”0

They fell silent, considering the wording of the poem.0

Vermilion Bird’s eyes lit up after a while. “Is the eternal homeland Qilin talked about the ‘wonderland eternal’ in the poem?”0

Gao Yang repeated the line, “The lost seek wonderland eternal.”0

“Wonderland eternal, the eternal homeland, the ever spinning top.” Vermilion Bird’s eyes dimmed for a moment. “Qilin never went into details about his childhood, but based on the little things he had said about himself, I knew...0