The Ninth Pantheon, Book One
Chapters
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Act 1: The Night He Died
1. Cold Entry2. The Hall of Competing Claims3. The Shade in the Tunnel4. Dundas Street, Midnight5. The Bell in the Basement6. What Fire Does to Paper7. Blood Consulate Scouts8. The Angel Who Filed a Report9. Madam Zhao's Back Room10. The Man Who Crossed WaterAct 2: The First Rule
11. Everything That Looks Like a Gift12. The Name You Give Away13. General Huang Qilin14. The Lab on the Lakeshore15. What It Takes to Command the Dead16. Seven Believers17. Cassiel's Disobedience18. The First Doctrine19. Tim Hortons, 3 AM20. Magistrate Shen Reads the File21. The Death That Wasn't an Accident22. His Mother's TextAct 3: The Between
23. Dinner in Yorkville24. The Body on the Table25. Thirty Seconds Before He Signs26. One Message27. No28. The Mercenary Dead29. Huang Qilin Goes to War30. Breath Drain31. What Varro Actually Believes32. Rosa Chen-Varro33. The Houseless DaughterAct 4: The Records Hall
34. Underground, by Permission35. The Records Hall36. The Altered Line37. Clerk Feng Qiao38. What a Filing Clerk Can Do39. The Ninth Pantheon40. The Seed Cracks Open41. Everything That Felt the Shift42. Shen Makes an Arrest43. The Evidence Is SealedAct 5: The First Shrine
44. The Thing Goes Viral45. Lily Burns Incense46. The Anchor Holds47. He Does Not Appear48. The Summons (All of Them)49. The Counter-Condition50. What Comes Next