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    Summary

    Yanqing knows what overtraining feels like.

    This is not that.

    His body feels light. His cuts disappear. His dreams leave him crying over a warmth he cannot remember. Yanqing only wants to know what is happening to him.

    When fear finally outweighs denial, Yanqing does not go to Jing Yuan. He cannot. Not yet. He does not want the healers whispering over his body. He does not want anyone looking at him like he is already something contaminated.

    So when the symptoms begin to look like mara, he seeks out the only person he knows who has lived with a curse in her own blood.

    Jingliu doesn't give him an answer. Then she breaks out of prison, takes him with her, and begins teaching him what a monster is supposed to be.

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