Threads of Destiny (OEX) Chapter 385. The patient is ready to receive a visitor.
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Yrsillar Wrote:Heavy footfalls were approaching the door. Solid and unyielding qi was matched with a scent she now recognized as sea spray. Beneath it, like an eel darting among the riverweeds, she could feel a sulking presence. That must be Xuan Shi’s bound spirit, the nightmare Kongyou. There was something else as well though, like a little blot of ink reflecting, or perhaps consuming, the very attention that fell on it.
She felt it pause there outside the door. There was doubt there, even now.
"Please come in," Ling Qi said, projecting her voice more with qi than air.
The presence startled, and then the door pushed open.
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