Status Updates From Vilest Things (Flesh and Fa...

Ima need this character to DISAPPEAR asap

She remembers the two lines that the crescents in the hollow temple wore, repeating it back to the 3 lines she saw … she tells the guards to let the yamen deal with this & that they were to leave

The children explain their mother told them to run if they ever feel the air get cold, cold = qi stolen

She notices 3 lines on the trough where the kids were hiding, they say it’s a sigil for protection - their mother shows up & says she wants to take her kids home, but doesn’t ask what happened

This makes her wonder if the provinces r better @ hiding secrets than she thought

She never went back for those bodies at the hollow temple & she felt guilty about it

As she’s searching around Ponins death site, she finds other soldiers, 30 at least all that dropped dead wo an indication how they died, no blood

She finds two children terrified, they tell her that they the soldiers let them play there and eat rice leftover - the barracks turned ice cold they said no attack

Calla wasn’t allowed to have a sword “the royal guards r your protection” so when she gets the barracks & sees the yamen workers around Ponins body - he has carvings in his chest similar to qi expermwnte; but Ledia miliu is in prison (she guided them in the 1st book)

She has a flashback of when she was stabbed & yikes was kidnapped she felt that she should’ve gotten others out not just yilas

Calla noted the coldness of the place (literally) - the villagers don’t want help from higher ups due to their negligence of wars etc - Venus cry’s out that General Ponin is dead outside of the west barricks, they were looking for him to report back to Venus cuz she’s in charge of his group as council - calla takes off the to barracks to find out what’s happening leaving Venus behind

why did I think it was a good idea to read this at the same time as a song to drown rivers