"This beats the hell outta playin' 'guess the Liminal'", Kanji says with a faint smile. "Why don't you come out more often to talk? Keep hearin' and seein' Empress and Lovers gatecrashing, but ... apart from that ..."

Perhaps if they'd talked sooner, things would have been so much easier, for all Kanji gets a bit of why things had worked this way.