Year of the Boar, Eighth Month, Day 20. Postscript.

While I was writing earlier, a bird arrived with a message from Laughing Spider. Kouji, my agent there, has written to inform me of Kenta’s death. That was no surprise to me of course but he also added that Tsuyoshi and Ichiko have announced that their daughter has been betrothed to a distant cousin of mine, Genji. I am surprised by that. Rise once confided in me that she did not imagine that she would ever wed; that she would end up betrothed to a man who is not in line to Rule his House is highly intriguing. I suppose though that given the absence of a suitable match among the Ruling class, there is little choice for her. It does seem a little tactless of Laughing Spider to make such an announcement while White Lake’s remaining son lies cold but I suppose I have no way of knowing how old that piece of news is since Kouji did not say.