The flowers in Yuhua Town never touch the ground.
They hang beneath the eaves, beside the lamps, and in the rain, like a white dream the world has forgotten. The townsfolk see them as scenery, but after losing his spirit-master abilities, Ji Liang hears another kind of voice coming from within the flowers.
Spirit arts, mechcraft, mystic energy, gray breath, the uncanny, the Imperial Seat… This world, guarded by isolated stations, may seem governed by strict order, but every inch of its tranquility is built upon unseen taboos.
Twelve-year-old Ji Liang thought he had become an ordinary person.
Until he discovered that ordinary eyes, too, could see the traces left behind by all things.
A featherflower marked with a dark pattern, a memory erased, a sky no one had ever breached.
As shadows from beyond the gray breath begin to knock at the door, the boy will follow the places where the light comes to a halt, step by step, toward the deepest secrets of the world.
Recommend! Some concepts are a bit slow to unfold, the dialogue is concise, the characters are vivid and three-dimensional, the rhythm is just right, and the writing is delicate.