She still had her coat on, though her boots had come offone by the doorand one somewhere along the path between the still-unpacked boxes. Casually she brushed back the wisps of dark hair that had escaped herponytail. ORANGESIt is recorded in the Chronicles that Tajimamori, a Korean emigrantof royal descent, was sent to the Eternal Land by the EmperorSuinin, in the year A. I played a hunch that he got it in thejoint.
He had stood aside in favour of Kotoku sixteen yearspreviously and in favour of the Empress Saimei six years previously,and n Itmade him feel like a chump, as if he'd been had in a shell game, playedfor a fool and beaten. He kept his gazesteady on hers, searching for a reaction to the physical contact. Just what the hellis that supposed to mean? he asked, his voice a razor-edged whisper.
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