They followed the shouting.
Around the eastern shoulder of the mountain, in a stone alcove that five centuries of pilgrims' feet had walked past, was a head. Moss on the cheeks. Grass in the fists. Eyes that had gone red-rimmed and gold-cored in a furnace a very long time ago, and that fixed on now with an attention that made the monk take a step backward into Boqin.
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