Tokyo Twins Chapter 29 Part 2 - Monday morning and the law of gravity.

a serialized online story

by Tommy Schmitz



Also on Monday morning

A-san paced the room...

"Things are not looking good for you,"

she said at her hooded

and handcuffed hostages --

three now --

Henry and Mieko O'Brien,

plus the old man who delivered them food,

one who'd be dead already

had A-san realized he could speak Japanese.


A-san's hands were nervous but locked behind her back

her teeth clenched, the muscles around her eyes pulled tight,

her mouth and face without color.

"We have heard from no one, anywhere," she went on,

"about anything regarding the demands we have made.

Not even the courtesy of an acknowledgment."


She stopped pacing to mumble and sigh,

sat down on her haunches

and thought out loud:

"We're not even showing up on the radar, are we?"



"I'm not so sure about that." said Mieko O'Brien.

"Perhaps you're right, Mrs. O'Brien, but

tomorrow afternoon at five o'clock

there'll be no doubt:

our mission here will show up on

everybody's radar. Well, for anyone who

cares to tune-in the live Internet broadcast

coming to the world from this very room

of your final moments and your executions.


"And by whose authority will these executions take place?" Mieko said,

"certainly not the groups mentioned in your demands."


"I beg your pardon!" Mrs. O'Brien.


"You don't even speak for your own people!" Mieko interrupted.


"And how would you know who I speak for, and why, Mrs. O'Brien?

Until you heard my story,

you could not in a million years

connect East Timor with the words sovereign-state

let alone the single word of genocide.


"Everyone suffers some times." Mieko said.


"Not like this" Mrs. O'Brien, "how could you be so..."


"...so maybe we can help you contact someone,"

Henry O'Brien was speaking up now,

"who can explain what is happening with your demands."


"Like who, Mr. O'Brien." said A-san.


"Perhaps we can connect you

with - um, I don't know -

the head of Japan's largest television network?" said Henry.


I doubt you can...


"He's my uncle, A-san, my mother's brother. Of course we can."


"What?"


"I believe I spoke plainly, A-san."


"How do I contact him?"


"You have my cell phone, A-san,

and my charger I presume. His number is in there.


"B? Bring me Mrs. O'Brien's cell phone and charger."


*******



Also on Monday morning

Obá-chan was standing with her left hand

on the hood of the agents car in front of her house.

leaning her head into the passenger window

and raising her left eye-brow at Kaneko-san,

and then at Taya-san.

"When was the last time

you two ate a meal, hmm? Please come in.

I'll feed you. And no, this is not the time

for polite refusals. Do come in now."



"Thank you, madam." said the agents.



"I'll accept your formality

since the girls aren't here to encourage your

bad manners." She held the door open

for the agents to enter.

"Tea is ready. Please sit down."

...