The heat came through the fabric, instantly making his thigh go numb. He instinctively reached into his pocket, and what he pulled out made his pupils contract sharply: a palm-sized compass, its body cast from an unknown bronze. At its center was a lifelike coiled dragon that seemed to be moving. This was the Longxing Compass, the ancestral treasure of the Xu family of the Stargazing Pavilion.
