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Leda and the Samurai
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Category:
Fantasy
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN-10: 0359461929
Type: Fiction
Pages: 64
Copyright: October 8, 2018
ISBN-13: 9780359461929
Price: $1.99 (eBook)
Leda finally begins to understand why she's been brought to the past.
On the day of the famous Sendai Tanabata festival, Leda found herself transported 400 years into the past. Trapped in Edo Era Japan, Leda is saved by the young samurai Bennosuké. Now, Leda and Ben must solve the mystery of how she travelled through time - and why.
Following the only clue she has, that being a cat Leda suspects isn't your everyday house-cat, Leda is finally starting to get some answers. But just as the puzzle pieces begin to fall into place, the dangers of this world start to show themselves. There are more than bandits living in the forest, and the sudden appearance of European ships in Matsushima Bay changes everything...
Excerpt
The bath water was almost unbearably hot, but that’s just how Leda had always liked it. There was something about immersing herself in heat that made her feel at ease. She liked coming to the bathhouse, and feeling the silence around her. She breathed in the steam, sometimes letting her head slip under the surface. For a moment she could pretend that she existed somewhere outside of reality. But of course, she was outside of reality. Every time she woke up and looked at her room, or peeked into the garden and listened to the distant unfamiliar sounds of feudal Japanese city life, she knew this wasn’t reality. Not her reality.
She’d had time now to think about what had happened. She had been at Bennosuké’s house for nearly two weeks. At first the doctor who’d removed the arrow from her arm came every day to check her wound. She spent most of her time in bed, thoughts of infection keeping her up when she should have been resting. She had never lived in a place where she couldn’t just go to a drug store and get pain killers and sterilizers. She kept sniffing her arm, wondering what gangrene even smelled like, wondering if they would have to amputate it.
As the days continued the doctor came less and less and the pain became a dull feeling she sometimes forgot completely about. Her arm was stiff, and it was hard to lift anything with it, but she finally realized that she had escaped a serious life-threatening injury and that everything was going to be all right.
Everything, save for the fact that she was in the wrong time.
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