Yu Shou tilted her head, considering. "I wouldn't say *nothing.* She did successfully birth me into this realm. That was necessary. Without her sacrifice, I couldn't have manifested. So in a sense, her choice had meaning."
"That's not....." Shuyin pressed her hands to her face. "That's not the same thing."
Lu Yuze, still processing all of this, finally found his voice.
"The hospital," he said quietly. "The Lu family. Lin Feng and Madam Chen. They're all looking for the baby right now. They're tearing the hospital apart trying to find him."
He looked at Yu Shou.
"They don't know you're not a baby anymore. They think you were kidnapped. Stolen. There's a Code Pink lockdown happening right now across the entire building."
Yu Shou's expression didn't change. "I am aware. I felt their distress as I traveled here. But there's nothing I can do about that. I needed to reach Shuyin. That was my priority."
