On a warm Kyoto night, Shura joins her mistress in a quiet park for a private lesson in foxfire and control. Still smarting from yesterday’s failure, she is given a new chance to prove herself... and the stakes rise higher than either of them expected when the evening takes an unexpected turn.

As Cernunnos reprograms her neural conditioning, Hound-91 recovers fragmented memories of her previous life...

Corporate forces secure the rebel city, and Hound-91 meets the corporate architects of her suffering.