All Chapters of The Prince Want Me But I’m A Demon: Chapter 41
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The Emperor came down at noon.The ward saw him first. He came down the temple hill in plain robes, with no escort and no sedan and no banner, and the Confessor walked a step behind him, and the people on the shore went very still, and then they knelt, all of them, in the wet and on the drowned steps, and the Emperor walked through them to the water's edge, and he stood there, looking across the water at the tower.He was an old man. The sun was hard on him, and the walk down the hill had tired him, and he stood at the water's edge with his hands at his sides, and he did not call out.Chu Nian stood in the gate arch.Xiao Jin came down the stair behind her, and he stood at her shoulder, and they looked across the water at the Emperor, and the Emperor looked back at them, and the whole ward held its breath on the shore."Chu Nian," said the Emperor.His voice carried. It was an old man's voice, and it had been trained for forty years to carry across courts, and it carried across the wa
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Chapter 40
The Confessor came back at dusk, alone, without the tray.He stood at the top of the stair, and his old face was gray, and he looked at them, and he did not speak."The field took one of the treaty court's servants at dawn," he said at last. "A boy who carried the pallets. He dreamed the hearing won, and the city dry, and the court safe. He died smiling in the antechamber, and the court found him when they woke from their breath-holding, and they have asked the Emperor to send them home.""The Emperor refused," said Xiao Jin."The Emperor refused," said the Confessor. "He told them the hearing is at this water in nine days, and they may go home when it is over, and until then the court belongs to the Throne and the Throne belongs to the Moon and the Moon does not let its witnesses run." He paused. "He has also asked me to tell you that he slept last night with the register under his hand, and he dreamed for the first time in ten days, and in the dream the Moon opened the book and wrot
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Chapter 41
The water held at the sill all morning.It had climbed in the night, a hand at moonrise, another at moon-down, and then it had stopped, and it stood now at the sill of the gate, lapping, patient, and the whole ward had come out to look at it.A Deng brought the news at gray, wading in with her oilcloth."The old women say the river is at the door," she said. "They say it has come to court the tower, and the tower has not answered, and the river is waiting to see if the bride will come out to it.""The river is not courting," said Chu Nian. "It is waiting for its hour. The hour is the seal's end. It will be at this door when the seal opens, and it will witness the reckoning, and it will take what the reckoning gives it."A Deng looked at the water at her shins."And what will the reckoning give it?" she asked."That is what I am going down to find out," said Chu Nian.A Deng nodded, once, the way she nodded at biers."The ward says the water has stopped because the Throne spoke for you
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