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A Tapestry, Unraveling by Jinxed_Ink
Fandoms: The Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan
21 Jan 2024
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Summary
“You, monk,” Ouyang said, “what’s your name?
“Xu Da,” the monk said. His voice sounded off, as though he was only half present. He looked at Ouyang with wide, unfocused eyes that sharpened only slowly. “I know you,” he said. “Lord Esen’s eunuch.”
The words brought a spasm of pain to Ouyang’s breast. In an instant, he was transported back to that ger, with the copper stink of blood thick in his nostrils, its bitter taste filling his mouth, Esen’s heaving body held in his arms, feeling his own fate unspool like a ruined tapestry. “Lord Esen is dead,” he said. He’d died a senseless death, and once the funeral rites had been performed, Chaghan had punished his son’s eunuch with fifty blows of the heavy rod for failing to protect him and thrown him out to starve in the streets.
Ouyang is part of the bandit group Xu Da joins after the monastery burns down.