The Skull Mantra
“It was a land that seemed to defy being tamed, or claimed, a land unlike any Shan had ever experienced. The wind blew constantly over the high lonely plateau, churning the sky into a mosaic of heavy clouds and brilliant patches of blue. When Sergeant Feng stopped, as he frequently did to consult his map, Shan heard fleeting, unidentifiable sounds, as if the wind carried fragments of voices and calls, strange broken noises like the distant cries of suffering. There were places, some of the old m...onks believed, that acted as filters for the world’s woes, catching and holding the torments that drifted across the earth. Maybe here was such a place, Shan thought, where the screams and cries of the millions below collected to be beaten by the wind into snippets of sound, like pebbles in a river.
He waited until they had driven nearly six hours to call back to Tan from a battered, tin-roofed garage near the county border.
“Where are you?” Tan demanded.
“What do you know about Lieutenant Chang of the 404th?”MoreLess
He waited until they had driven nearly six hours to call back to Tan from a battered, tin-roofed garage near the county border.
“Where are you?” Tan demanded.
“What do you know about Lieutenant Chang of the 404th?”MoreLess
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