Chapter 18

Soul Meets Ruin

Wine is a punishment from all Sixty-four Gods. A punishment for wretched souls like mine.

I chanted the words in a mantra over and over as I lay in bed. It was already past the beginning of the fifth shi’chen, and I hadn’t even thought about getting up, let alone connecting to the flaws to see how they were doing. Today was, if anything, the most important of the meetings. The last meeting.

The Duke of T......