Back to Summit Station

Bai Bo reached for the ward panel, and the metal burst hot under his fingers. Every gauge in the room cracked, because his Heaven and Earth root always broke the tools before they could measure him. That made him the only person in Summit Station who could keep the patrol bells, life lines, and seal walls working. It also made him useful to people who smiled while they tried to own him. He kept a brass token, a repaired candle, and a hollow staff in the same narrow room, and all three traced back to Shen Yao. Shen kept walking into danger with a steady face and an unsteady hand. Bo thought he understood that kind of care until the first time he had to catch Shen's wrist on the bridge over th...