Sins

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Long before Bai Ruyi and his escorts had reached the main palace, some of its occupants had already been alerted of his return.  All six of the guards alighted from their horses upon reaching the gate, watching and waiting for the prince in their midst to do the same. On their way here, Bai Ruyi wrestled with the crushing guilt that threatened to overwhelm him. His eyes had stared ahead, but he was seeing nothing in his mind’s eye except those days-old corpses strung over the palace complex’s gate. When they were alive, those four guards had manned that same gate. The other casualty, the boy who must have only been twelve or thirteen, had worked at the stables that were nearest to Bai Ruyi’s residence. Their only crime had been to give Bai Ruyi the means to go out of the palace and to

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