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Chapter 28

The Horse Speaks

意馬憶心猿 金公施法度The Horse of the Will remembers the Mind Monkey; the Metal Sire works his method of deliverance.
世德堂本 1592, juan 6
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That night the white horse became a dragon again.

It cost him. He had been a horse so long that shaking off the shape was like tearing a scab, but he did it — coiled up out of the palace stable, scales and horns and four hundred years of prince, and went to the banquet where the demon sat charming the court in his young-lord disguise, and attacked him directly, dragon against demon, to kill him and end it and free his master.

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