"Yes. Dinner. Or a very late dinner. Early breakfast. Whatever you want to call it." He helped her sit up, noting how she moved more easily now, her strength returning gradually. "You've been asleep for hours, and your body needs fuel."
"I'm not particularly hungry," she said, but her voice lacked its usual conviction. Her body, despite being something other than human, still had needs.
"You need to eat anyway," Lu Yuze insisted. "You've been through a lot today. Your body needs to recover."
That was putting it extremely mildly. Healing a child from impossible poison using her own life essence. Then, she killed two men from three kilometers away with nothing but her mind. Any normal person would be dead from that kind of exertion.
But Shuyin wasn't normal. She was barely even human.
