"Are you sure this is going to work?" I tugged at the oversized imperial physician robe, inside of which my medical box contained not herbs, but a radiation detector and antibiotics.
Zhao Ningxiang skillfully tied my sash. She was dressed in the pale pink attire of a palace maid, her hair pinned meticulously. "The Imperial Medical Academy enters the palace every ten days to take the pulse. This is our best opportunity." She lowered her voice. "Father found out that the grand prelate goes into secluded meditation every first of the month in the secret pavilion behind the Zichen Hall. Today happens to be..."
I nodded, touching the piece of the Heavenly Mystery Disk hidden against my chest. Ever since that night at Lingyin Temple, this bronze shard had become unusually quiet, no longer emitting light or heat, as if it were merely ordinary metal.
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