Chapter 11
Yofune Nushi once lived in a lair beneath the waters off the shores of Japan, before he renounced his old life of terrorizing humans for a new life of tranquil solitude on land. His old home was situated next to a tear in the Curtain, in a grotto carved from the face of a cliff overlooking the ocean. Once he and Tanuki got the caravan out of the swamp and back to Japan, Yofune escorted everyone to his old lair. The cave was invisible to anyone on land, and there was plenty of evidence—smashed boats, torn sails, and strewn debris—to show what happened to foolish sailors who attempted to sail in the lair’s perilous reef. It was a home befitting a reclusive dragon of the seas.
The grotto led into a series of spacious chambers, rooms which were dry and warm. This was once a plac
