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Mieko isn't waiting for Masugu to come to her. No. Not at all.
(A missing moment from "Climbing the Walls," Chapter 26 of Risuko, the first book in the Seasons of the Sword series.)
I heard the sound again, closer but still ahead of me. It was definitely two voices, but they were still too muffled for me to understand what they were saying, or even to know for certain to whom they belonged. Then the wind whipped across my face and I had to move forward even more cautiously, feeling my way with my hands.
At the edge of the bubble of flake-filled air that bounded my vision, I made out two looming shapes: one to the right—a roof, the Retreat—and ahead of me the corner of the compound wall.
I stopped. The voices couldn’t have come from outside of the compound, could they?
“You know, there are a hundred and eight ways that I could kill you.” The voice was colder than the air that bit at my face and hands, and so clear that I stumbled and nearly fell off of the wall.
“You killed me three years ago,” said another, sadder voice. “I don’t think any of the other hundred and seven could have been any more effective.”
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