yeek.

The victim in this article* is someone I know from the dojo. Not very well at all, mind; she usually came to a different class. But we tested for 5th Kyu together, and I'd just seen her last week. She'd seemed sort of distracted and upset, but it was known she was travelling back and forth between the city and her place up north a lot, and everyone figured that was why.

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