TIME TO FALL IN LOVE
and his eyes, visible through the silk scarf, were fixed on Grace like a starving man watching a feast.
"Where is he, Jian?" Panni’s voice was a jagged blade in the silence. "You said he was alive. Show me."
Jian didn't answer with words. He raised a hand, and from the shadows of a massive, black basalt pillar, two men in Kyoto silks dragged a figure into the center of the rotunda.
Panni’s heart shattered. It was Jinyan.
He was bound to a heavy wooden chair, his linen shirt shredded, his chest covered in the blue-black bruises of the Kyoto "Tuning." His head was bowed, his breathing a shallow, wet rasp. But as the light of the torches hit him, he forced his eyes open.
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