eighteen years and over. Any resemblance to
its characters are purely coincidental. All names
are hashed off alphabetical dice cubes as indeed
all virtual worlds associated in the mid term
future.
(Mehetelo City. The private function room of
the Electric Eel Bar and Dance.)
Yoshio - I've got some good news and some bad
news, girls. You're going to be blooded into the
gang as visiting associates. However, Toshiro
believes, and I agree, that deaths by misadventure
are no place for women. The well worn rut of
sexual entrapment and emotionally centred
blackmail is plenty enough. Your skills with
boomerangs, the technique for knocking down
rivals from round a corner at an intersection are
going to be incorporated in a blind to ruin
Stonefish once and for all. He likes to get his
hands dirty working with his soldiers, putting
his own ear to the tattle on the deep fry dumpling
carts. While you are openly practising your
boomerang throws in the precincts of Mehetelo
City, to dirty the waters and wash our hands,
that useless scab Crybaby, the rehabilitated
cannibal will let Stonefish into the warehouse
containing Miyu's wedding gift, the crystal
glass pressure cooker aquarium. As he ponders
the resemblance between the death mask
therein, as his gang sharpen their shuriken
in ultranationalist fervour, how it resembles and
yet doesn't resemble him, Yichi the freelance thug
will plaster him with a contraption holding two
fire extinguishers. But you didn't hear it from
me.
Mindy - We heard it from a miniaturised
dodo bird in a bonsai tree.
Yoshio - Yes, my dears, it was only a vision in
Toshiro's magic crystal upturned goldfish bowl.
Cindy - I saw a looped rerun of Miyu's cooking
show last night. Professor Grenouille used an
eyedrop to drip acid rain into the aquarium
pressure cooker and the death mask reputed
to be of King Mithridates, dumped off the
coast of Nedea, for ballast during a typhoon,
by a Portuguese galleon, took a bleaching seachange.
Yoshio - King Mithridates was the last in line
of a dynasty of namesakes. Can you see the beauty?
Mindy - To think King Mithridates would
immunise himself with doses of snakebite.
Cindy - Antivenins.
Yoshio - He reputedly had a 74 ingredient recipe
for a universal antidote.
Mindy - We underestimate the ancients in their
cleverness.
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