Lhasit wakes up feeling unusually chipper. It's their day off — they work two days on, one day off at a pharmaceutical plant on the western edge of the city, doing quality assurance for trans-dermal patches.

But today, they have nothing in particular scheduled, and they decide that it might be nice to have a party.

They consider whether they're really up for it as they brush their teeth, and decide that it would be nice. Their apartment isn't very large — it's one of the slightly awkwardly-shaped ones that shows up at the corner of a building, overlooking the intersection below — so they decide to limit things to four people.