The mission of the Tang empire, brother of the Son of Heaven, bearer of the imperial credentials, lasted three days before it walked into a hole in the ground.
They had crossed the border at Hezhou and pushed on before dawn against local advice, because was eager, and eagerness at the frontier is a food group. In the dark, on Double-Fork Ridge, the ground gave, and monk, servants, and horse went down together into a pit, and hands hauled them out of it, and the hands were not human.
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