<strong>Duchess</strong><br/><br/>Akiko was able to get a meeting with her fixer in a small park down town.<br/>The British woman perched gently on a park chair in a sharp grey power suit.  Two other tables in the park were occupied—one by two old men playing chess, the other by two younger folks doing the same.  The second two Akiko had seen around before, a human man almost elfin tall and thin, and a dwarf woman.<br/>Her contact did not have the chess board set up, but rather a hot plate, steeping tea kettle, and a tea service.<br/>