Chapter 568: Internal Collapse

Cloude Temple, Grand Hall. The vaulted dome soared overhead. Blue jade paved the floor, and everlasting lamps on coiling dragon pillars cast their glow across one solemn face after another. Margaret Zimmerman knelt in the center of the hall. She wore plain white mourning cloth, with a single white flower pinned into her hair. Her eyes were swollen red, yet she forced herself not to cry. She had already recounted everything in full: her younger brother Kendrick Zimmerman's death, Raymond Sabey's...