As Eiko Magami reached the end of another all-you-can-eat salad bar her

heart still felt empty.



How could Kei have used her, simply to get close to Shiko?  She'd just eat

away her troubles.



As her hand landed on the last piece of cantaloupe, it brushed against

another hand.



She looked up into the tear-filled blue eyes of a green-haired oni boy and

she was lost.



"And that's how your folks met Hikaru?"



"Yeah."



"Well, we always knew you were an alien."



	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb

    They come to kill Godzilla, but he ain't gonna die.