How rude of me to have not introduced her sooner, but this is my friend Leah of Hel. She is a bit dour and not a fan of the internet, though she does have her good moments. Be gentle with her, she is a little slow to our modern ways.

[ Here's a shot of the Inception crew's backyard, covered in vibrant fingerprints of red and orange and yellow. Ruining an attempt at a pile (Yusuf has never been big on that thing called "manual labor" and the rake is a rather confusing lawn instrument ) is Pancake, of whom you must all be either thoroughly enamored or, at the very least, inundated with. From offscreen comes Yusuf's voice, ] I wonder how many of these are curse-modified stratum corneum...

[ aka ew Pancake u nasty ]

For what it's worth, I appreciate the seasons the City affords. Mombasa doesn't see a Fall season, so raking leaves and parsing out the heat function on the thermostat is still novel to me.

[ A pause, in which Pancake fails utterly to see himself as a hinderance to the raking process. ] Not sure what I'm supposed to do once they're all raked up, but I suppose we surmount one obstacle at a time...

( the device has been strategically placed to record the following couple of seconds, which might be better described as a "fucking disaster". the camera remains fixed on one of the walls to the kogarasumaru base and it's almost boring because it's about half a minute of looking at nothing but a brick wall. )

—Waaauuughhhhh!!

( then, in one blaze of screaming and rubble, ikki comes bursting through what was just a wall about 30 seconds ago, arms failing before colliding hard against the ground. for a moment, he doesn't nothing but lay against the ground in a crumpled and pathetic heap, but it really only lasts a moment before he's picking himself back up and turning towards the skateboard that he had been riding. yeah, a skateboard that'll never been ridden again because it snapped in half. )

Fuuuuuuck!! There's not enough room in there!!

( a pause as he pulls at his face with dirty hands. )

It needs to be bigger! ( another pause and then he's turning towards the device, finger outstretched. you know, like the crashing bit never happened. )

YO NETWORK! THAT'S HOW A GOD RIDES A SKATEBOARD! DID IT BRING A TEAR TO YOUR EYE? OF COURSE IT DID AND YOU CAN OFFER UP TRIBUTE BY DONATING SOME FREAKIN' EXPLOSIVES. YOU CAN'T EXPECT MY MINIONS TO REBUILD IN THIS KIND OF CONDITION!