At least that's how it stood the last time I met with them. It might have changed for all I know."A somewhat hidden door opened behind the center stre...ch of table and a handful of men entered, talking to each other in animated fashion, followed by a pair of younger women and a cluster of much older men. They spread out slightly, each heading to their designated seat with little in the way of uncertainty or awkwardness. For them it was a dance they'd all performed many times before and not one. Anna blushed slightly at the half naked man in their kitchen that had just been announced as her sisters fiance. ‘Nice to meet you Teagan. Um, Chia, when did this whole fiance thing happen, and why is he here at this hour in the day? You don’t look quite so mad about this arrangement as I thought you would be.’ She knew something must be up, and she wanted to be in on it too. Chia smiled at her curious little sister. Anna was a smart little girl, and must have guessed that something wasn’t. She pulls into a supermarket to buy more cigarettes, parking the car and taking her purse from her wallet. The cashier is Asian in appearance, male, mid to late 50s, his name badge says Charles, she notes this all automatically as she queues, habit now due to her job. When he speaks she is surprised to hear that his accent is pure public school English. She’s unused to this, expecting him to speak with a foreign accent or in that kind of gangsta style accent that everyone between Crawley and. We will speak later of how I may aid you." Roger got a similar reassurance, in English.The meal went well, and there was absolutely no evidence that portions had been adjusted or dishes added at the last minute. The previous night's meal had included North American cuisine; tonight's included foods from the Brazilian Conglomerate, and from the Sudamerican Confederacion, the two major South American powers. As in North America, consolidation in the south had been voluntary, and had deliberately.