. at the hospital.I had just ordered (or maybe just tried to order) Banzai to not go off crazy like he did in Russia, but he grinned at me and said, "...ack, that's a great fucking idea! I hadn't thought about taking off like I did in Russia until you mentioned it."Son of a bitch! I sure as hell didn't want to give him the idea. I continued my caution, "Banzai, Colonel Maggie won't put up with that bullshit like Major M did!"He laughed and announced, "Gotcha Jack! Of course this isn't Russia and. ’ Of course I was curious about my flat, but I was even more curious about how Peter lived. My imagination had come up with a lot of different scenarios, from a total mess to clinically stark. The only thing that would surprise me was a very ordinary IKEA-catalogue home. ‘I have had this house for five years,’ he said. ‘You are my first visitor.’ Behind the front door was a stairway. Blue, all shades of blue. Some stuffed birds. I thought about that world-famously unknown taxidermist and. He muttered to himself even more as he ran upstairs and finally managed to pull on a pair of jeans. He ran back downstairs and yanked the door open just as the woman was about to knock. He was looking at a stunningly beautiful oriental woman with an uncertain expression whom he did not know. ‘Good morning, Mr. Browne,’ she said softly, ‘My name is Kumiko. May I come in? I have walked a long way.’ He looked bewildered for a moment. She had to have walked a long way if she’d come from town. It. Ortegas office the very next morning and made an appointment to come in for the IUD insertion. I tried to get in that same day, but the earliest they could fit me in was Monday, which was the fourth day of my five-day-long menstrual period. On Monday morning, Ray was in the small exam room with me, when I found myself on top of the exam table, with my legs spread apart and the heels of my feet in the metal stirrups, and the doctor between my legs, getting ready to insert the IUD up into my.