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Summary
Chan leads a team of eight shamans in a realm under siege by an insidious spiritual force. Something dark, intelligent and patient has been working against the spiritual infrastructure for months—destabilizing shrines, redirecting the flow of sacred energy, operating with the specific precision of something that understands the architecture it's dismantling. The shamanic order's political position is more precarious than it has been in a generation; the court watches for any indication that the shamans' autonomy is more trouble than it's worth.
He has also, somewhere in the accumulated weight of all of this, developed a problem he cannot address with any of his professional tools.
The problem has dark brown eyes, pale hair, a psychopomp's particular relationship with mortality, and a sunny warmth so genuine it had taken Chan embarrassingly long to understand why his nervous system had decided to treat it as a structural concern.
He had not addressed it. He had been addressing other things.
Series
- Part 2 of melodies in the shroud