The Battered Lamp Chapter Fourteen: The Lust of the Concubines
The Battered Lamp by mypenname3000 Chapter Fourteen: The Lust of the Concubines Copyright 2014 Note: Thanks to b0b for beta reading this! Thursday, January 23rd – SeaTac International Airport, Washington “Now boarding Air Canada flight 343 to Vancouver, Canada,” the gate attendant announced. Fumi stood up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. Today had been so long. She had nearly froze to death lying in the snow waiting for the Native American spirit Niqualmie to appear. Yukishojou-no-onsen, was her answer, a hot spring in her native Hokkaido, the northern most of the main islands of Japan. She had driven straight from Mount Rainier to SeaTac Airport and bought a ticket on the earliest flight that would get her to Hokkaido with her mother’s credit card. She had a short flight to Vancouver, then a two-and-a-half …
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