The Undying Memoirs: Part Two

As promised, here is now the second part of the Undying Memoirs, again written from my point of view.

The Undying Memoirs: Disguises

I tried to restrain him from sitting up--he was suffering from a very high fever, a terrible imbalance of the Yin and Yang in his body. Any activity might make his condition worse. Lord Zhuan Xu himself had asked us to keep a close watch over this man; yet judging from his aura, he was not just a simple human who managed to get himself lost in our territory.

"Don't move. You have a fever." I said, yet he still sat up, his bandaged hand pressing heavily down on the sheets and the other massaging his head. "Let me get you something to drink."

I stood up and went out to make some tea.

"Is he awake?" Antares asked as I went out; he was standing guard at the door with Zhu Rong. "Have you asked?"

"He is awake, though he has not said anything yet." I replied.

Surely he was not from around here. His clothes were little more than rags, singed at the edges and stained with blood. He had no weapon nor clan crest. Apart from his blindfold and his aura, there was nothing different about him.

The blindfold. We had not removed it since we found him; and we were told not to.

And I find myself wondering what lay behind them.

Yet who am I to take it off? I myself show only my other side--that of a fox--to strangers. Only the other Immortals had seen my true form, and I wished to keep it that way. We were all bound to secrecy for our safety.

Was he one of us, then? That I wished to know as I walked back to the room, carrying the tea set.