In contrast to all of the previous recipients of this message, Nodoka 'Heisenberg' Mori - officer of Lone Star Security Services - was<em>not</em>asleep, or even enjoying the sexy funtimes of the world - when she received the message.  No, unlike those people, she had something more important to be doing -<em>working</em>.  Her job at Lone Star required a number of hours invested a week, and beyond those hours was her personal case of making sure that her parent company didn't hit the tank in Seattle and be forced to transfer more of its employees elsewhere - at this point, everyone who had been dumped had been.  What was left was too valuable, would never be fired.  Like her.  She had already lost Goose to the DiPS, she wasn't going to lose him for good.<br/><br/>Speaking of acquaintances, her message inbox popped and she saw that she had something from Shoko.  Probably just another invite to a tea ceremony, or a family get-together, or...wait.  Hold the vid-phone.  This wasn't it at all.  The Eye of the Needle...a party.  That certainly sounded like where the photogenic Yakuza princess would be when she wasn't being all businesslike and such.  But this invitation was for her, instructing her that she was going to be going to this affair, and that she would need to be in dress code.<br/><br/>Good luck.  Her closet consisted of a few dresses, sure, but no sort of ensemble that would be at a party for a place like the Eye!  And while she might-wait.  Someone was calling her.  Getting up from her chair, she headed in the direction of the sound, finding a man that Nodoka knew as one of the Himenokouji clan's shadow men - and he had a box for her.  She took it, thanked him, and then headed back to her workstation, opening it.<br/><br/>A dress.  A very nice dress.  Probably something from Shoko's wardrobe.<br/><br/>...well, now she had no reason not to go...