“Do you know how?” Wang Yizhou asks, but it’s all a light tease, and he’s already taking his hand away, as if in expectation.
“Nope!” says Ji Li, confident. Then, in a move that he will recognise, in hindsight, to be the start of the complete undoing of his whole night, he adds, “But I’ll learn. Really quick.” He fishes out his phone from the pocket of his shorts, and holds it up, almost conspiratorial. “Bet I’ll have it down in one video. I’m very resourceful like that.”
Billy Gibson takes a trip downtown.
Goodsir takes stock of his practicals.
As Kylo Ren awaits judgment, Poe Dameron seeks satisfaction.
Bodyswap!
Two friends pause together briefly.
How many nights has he entertained this very vision of Tang Fan, all lean long lines and li after li of smooth skin? Most, in some shape or another, since Tang Fan first stormed into his life and made his home in what wreckage he found there. Too many, but so few. To have it now, real enough to see, too far from reach to touch— it’s agony.
Leo allows himself to be escorted home, rather than jumping. Daimler puts the young prince to bed.
Unpleasant things happen to Jim Halsey, several times in a row but not in any particular order.
Violet starts to see India the way India sees, and everything else falls out of focus.