It was not surprising that Lord Matsuda was the only other outsider who knows Master Gorō’s prophetic verse. After all, the man did fall into that fateful trance in his ship’s cabin on that momentous voyage home from Northern Valedonia. And while it was obvious that the former Princess Ariadne was the “woman of the West” mentioned in the first line, who knows who the other person in that prophetic verse is. But the three men who have complete knowledge of the verse all agree that the other person is, most likely, a man … --------------------- Whenever he had time to himself, Kai would visit the stretch of beach by the sea - the very place where Master Go

