Gene stands with Pepper in the park, looking utterly unbothered - only someone who knows him as well as she does would be able to tell at all that he's a little bit nervous. After all he went through to do this, after coming to grips with everything he'd needed to and then going back and then returning to Konryu, was Tolui even still here?

Pepper had said that the ka was. He hopes she's right.

"Okay," he says. "Where do we start?"