Chapter 146
Tokyo, Japan
~Narrator~
The northeast corridor of the Forgotten Courts was not, architecturally speaking, designed for people who valued their blood pressure. The path narrowed to a stone walkway, leading to a thirty-foot drop on either side, the abyss below swirling with the same collapsed galaxy that they saw in the sky. Every ten meters, a new wave of shadow beasts materialized, burst through a rippling portal.
"You're fucking kidding me. They're coming out of the walls?" Taeyung said, with the measured calm of someone who had made a private decision that visible frustration was not going to be part of his public brand today.
"Mm," Phoebe said.
"That's all you've got? Mm?"
"I was being agreeable."
"You were being smartass."
