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“I was uncomfortably reminded that wherever we go, our legacy is chaos. Whoever says that foxes are a natural phenomenon like war and pestilence might well be right. But I'd like to think that were merely agents of change. Foxes, while often blamed as ill-omened creatures, are the needle that lances a boil.”

His long-fingered hand gripped his face too tight; I could see it in his white knuckles.
"She is my wife"he said.

Knew it!! <\3

Bao knows it’s Tagtaa!! Everything is speeding up!!
Oh no!! The grandson see his shadow!!

“Only the frosty stars above, shining in their uncaring way. A thousand years might pass, during which dynasties could rise and fall and a fox could attain sainthood, yet their faint, malicious sparkle wouldn't change. It was almost enough to make me give up.
Almost.”

“Perhaps your fates are bound together."
Fate is whatever you make of it, I wanted to shout. The mark of a fox is to disrupt order. But I didn't have the heart to tell her that.

“As Bao exits the crowded station, he muses that his childhood self would have been amazed at today's train ride. He's living in an age of fables-riding an iron horse in search of a beauty who might be a fox.”

"She said something to me when I was a child: 'I prayed to the fox god to take away your… But I can't remember what she asked for. For years I've wondered. Do you happen to know?"
To his utter surprise, his brother nods. "Yes, I remember. She asked the fox god to take away your shadow."

Ooooo!!!

“The damp breeze blew in through the carved wooden lattice, recalling grass growing on graves. A single spray of winter-blooming narcissus nodded on the table. White is the color of the dead.”

“If I were a fox, what would I do? The words skiter inside Bao's head, like drops of water on a hot pan.”

“But fate is fickle; those who don't seek the gods may encounter them unknowingly.”