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We’ll lay a dam from here all the way to that hill over there.” ‘That’s an awful lot of work.” “You seem to forget that this is our dōjō. I examined the location from every angle before I chose it.” “What if we have another heavy rain?” “We’ll fix it so the water doesn’t come this way. “With the water drained off, this would make excellent farmland. Let’s look for better land somewhere else.” “No,” Musashi said firmly. Iori, seeing no way to reclaim their loss, looked up and said, “This place is beyond hope. The water seemed to mock them just as the villagers had. The field they had so arduously carved out of the wilderness had disappeared without a trace in its place were rocks, and a river where none had been before. Musashi chafed to be out in the open, but it was another week before they were able to return to work under a bright sun. “On the eleventh day, it finally stopped raining.
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