The meet’s set to go down at the Coffee Bon, one of the high-tone kissaten—Japanese-style coffeehouses—that have recently begun to spring up in Seattle’s downtown core. The CB’s probably the most profitable, and the most prestigious, right in the middle of the corporate sector, just across the street from the Yamatetsu HQ at Fifth and Pike. The decor’s just the right weird, kind of a retro view of the future—how somebody in 1954 predicted 2054 would look, or some such drek. Lots of mirror-flash, lots of high tech masquerading as low tech masquerading as high tech, if you know what I mean. The background music, if you can call it that, is all randomly synthesized tones, supposedly monitored by some kind of algorithm that selects for combinations that would be pleasant to the (meta)human ear. Yeah, right. At least the coffee’s good—real coffee, not soykaf—but then, for fifteen-plus nuyen a cup, it oughtta be. No free refills, either.