Past battle surrounded by rumors of what Li Na did with her chains, downplayed by her brother.
Reassessing Li Na mid-flight, Carl thought of the stories from the Battle of Beijing — only rumors — of the things she had done with her chains. Li Jun had claimed the siblings missed most of that fight.
Carl was now fairly certain her brother had been holding back some of what really happened, part of a family pattern of understating Li Na's capacity for violence.
The rumored atrocity that recontextualizes Li Na's calm.
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