Chapter 6: Tetsu's Grandfather's Box

The complaint log was worse than Tetsu had expected.

He had known Natsuko kept a notebook — she had kept notebooks for as long as he could remember, through every season of their friendship, filling them with observations she delivered in the same tone other people used for grocery lists. He had always found this mildly funny. Natsuko cataloguing the world's minor wrongnesses, building cases against things that would never stand trial. It was one of her qualities he categorized as endearing-but-pointless, filed alongside Reiko's inability to walk past a telephone pole without counting its bolts and his own habit of licking his thumb before any serious dice roll.

He had not expected this.