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Submitted to Contest #49
The Lady of Ōguchi Castle sat on a waiting bench in the garden, breath-taken as she stared at the mountain. Its shape reflected off the surface of Lake Sanjō and the weather was perfect, ruined only by her husband, Lord Masanobu, who sat beside her on the bench, fidgeting and grumbling about someone as important and powerful as him having to wait for tea when he’d rather be drinking sake in the gambling hall back home. Lady Ochako knew what other vices her husband liked to partake in when he thought she was not watching. “It’s a beautiful ...
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