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    In the darkness of his bedroom, Chu Wanning retrieves the box from beneath the bed with fingers he refuses to let shake. He had not let them shake when he'd opened his apartment door, scarce days ago, and found the middle-aged woman down the hall staring at him with such open pity he'd thought he had something on his face, and then he had nearly tripped over the box where it sat outside his door.

    It's a pretty thing: well-made of neatly fitted panels of lacquered black wood, a shine so deep it nears purple depending on the light, and the hinged top engraved with the sigil of the local vampire clan, declaring him chosen as a night offering.

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