CHAPTER 1 - The Tengu's Promise

        The story was an old one, and the teller had been told it many times. Each carefully chosen word had fallen upon his ear again and again like the waves of the ocean wearing away the rocks of the shore, etching themselves upon his memory. So much so, that the words themselves lived within him. Though he was a man that had little use for words, when he told this story he became most deft of tongue and gesture. The story filled his lip and li. . .