Ding Rong has walked himself through five vivid calculations of Wang Zhi’s death at his hands in the carriage before Wang Zhi speaks.

“I’m in need of a second,” he says.

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In the spring of 2003, Alec Lightwood is just trying to make it to graduation. He'll have to survive the local music scene, his family, and falling in love first.

A record of an extremely small kindness.

There have been stranger love-matches made at sea. Probably.

Merridew is Merridew once more. Ralph is something else.

Hickey finds in Gibson a somewhat-too-willing teacher.

Fitzjames and Crozier take comfort in each other, despite everything.

No man has aught of what he leaves.

If Jiang Cheng kills him here — so long as he sits with Wei Wuxian’s body in this field until he grows cold, and he does not return to Lotus Pier — his life will have been worth its cost.

Sui Zhou's WeChat starts firing off around midday, which does at least immediately pare down the pool of potential suspects.