When Yu Yuan arrived in Black's Market, he looked around and found Lin Sanjiu roosting on a rooftop like an owl. The west-bound sun cast a golden halo around her body. Yu Yuan wondered how she managed to squeeze herself there, considering her tall stature. If she hadn't hit his shoulder with a stone, he would never have known she was there.
Yu Yuan looked up and asked, "What are you doing up there?"
He began to size up the building. It was thoroughly white; there were three floors, each of which were mounted with a window so small that Yu Yuan wondered what it could be used for.
"Can't you see? I've been waiting for you," Lin Sanjiu said as she hopped down from the rooftop. When she landed on the ground, a man's face appeared in the doorway on the lowest floor; he stared silently at her. She took a pouch from her pocket and handed two red crystals to the man. He took the red crystals wordlessly and then disappeared into the darkness behind the door.
