warning: not intended for young 'uns. Everything but language is pretty much PG or less this time, but the stories connected to this are not.

Prologue: Japan

June 1996

Leo's getting up to take a piss when he smells popcorn.
He ducks his head into the living room. Renet's sitting on the futon with a bowl, munching away. She turns her head when she hears him come in.
"Geez, I thought you were never gonna get up."
"What are you doing here?"
"Got something for you to watch," she says. "C'mon, you'll like it."

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