The new year! We made it! I hope you had time off to relax and do the equivalent of watch the Kohaku Utagassen, eat mochi, and lie about under a cosy kotatsu! I did two of those things and I would have done the third if only I had a kotatsu to lie about under.… Continue reading Fatale Game: Battan
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