[Jihatsu]

Date: Monday, May 3rd, 2004, 11:30 AM.
To: Katie Andrews
From: Wataru Yamada
Subject: hoooooo boy

[encrypted email]

Hey Katie,

So yesterday Kaede, Haruko and I went to visit Reiji and Kyoko Ozora, and... 
shit went down, man. Everybody's fine, but we ended up in the World Reversed, 
and... I kind of want to tell you about it. I don't know if you want to meet 
up again, but otherwise, I can give you some basics by email.

Basically, Reiji is still pretty shattered from the whole Pentacle thing. He 
seemed semi-aware and conversational, but was also just drawing pentacles the 
whole time. Then he did a thing and we all passed out, woke up in the World 
Reversed. He wasn't there. We tried to chase him down but only found freaky 
broken streets and stuff, and then WINSTON. 

Winston told us some weird shit. I don't think I can tell you all of it, I 
mean, it's a lot to work though and Kaede and Haruko were pretty adamant that 
we should just keep it between us for now. It's not like we'll do anything 
with the information, but until we have a clearer idea of what the deal is, 
their instinct is to sit on it, so I'm going to go along with it even if it 
kind of makes me uncomfortable. 

What I am gonna tell you, though, is that the World Reversed is... it's kind 
of falling apart. We're not sure about the causes or the effects of this, but 
it seems to be tied to the fact that the reincarnation cycle is broken. I 
have a lot of complicated feelings about the reincarnation cycle, but not 
much familiarity with the World Reversed, so I think I've got some soul-
searching to do. Was that a Haruko thing to say? I feel like she's maybe 
rubbing off on me and I'm not sure I like it. Is that mean?


W.


(a minute or two later, this comes as a tacked-on reply:)

Oh also Kaede was a funny dude who kept griping about his hat!