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after reading up to chapter seventeen, I now know that Amah was kidnapped by the emperor’s men and was taken to his dungeon. Pinmei wants to get her back, and Yishan agrees to help her. They want to go to the City of Bright Moonlight, where they think they can find Luminus stone there. It is snowing outside, and they travel on a snowy road through mountains. After their first day of traveling, they spend the night at a friendly couple’s house, and leave in the morning. As they are walking, a woman rides by them on a majestic white horse, but she falls off soon after passing them. They go to help her get up, and she tells them her name is Lady Meng, and she too, is going to the City of Bright Moonlight. They walk by a lake, and she instructs Yishan to break the ice. She fishes in the water with a pair of chopsticks, and takes out an oyster. She throws it up into the air, and it transforms into a swallow. She tells the swallow to lead them to the City of Bright Moonlight.