While writing this story, I kept thinking of Kublai Khan, the Yuan emperor, who crossed the sea several times to invade the island nation of Japan, only to suffer inexplicable defeats as storms and shifting sands sent his forces to ruin. It seems a happy family life was never meant for me. The new life that had already begun was cut short by the “divine wind”; the warships on the sea became wreckage, and eventually sank to the ocean floor...
