No more shop? No more Izi, grunting tersely into the mike? No Mr. Chan in the background, an omnipresent smell of coffee-two-creams? 

No, no. Unforgivable. Not happening. Not here, not on her watch, not now not ever. This is gonna be the best explanation, just as soon as she can figure out how to--

"It's like, you reach inside yourself, and pluck that little string at the center, right?"

Right. Uh. Human, meet lion. 

[i]Fwoosh[/i]. Mouse. [i]Fwoosh.[/i] Cat. [i]Fwoosh.[/i] Back to lion puppy.

"All celestial lions can do it? I don't know whether humans can or not, because it's like, there's all this art of people turning into things? And not a lot of people actually doing it out on the street? And I don't know whether it's like heaven, where it's like, oh, no, this inborn power which is [i]super awesome[/i] and feels good to use and feels bad to [i]not[/i] use is suddenly a bad thing to use? Or like, you know, impolite?

"… Mr. Chan, [i]can[/i] humans transform? Because I know one who can turn into fire and one who can walk through walls, and nobody tells me what people can and can't do.

"And it's like, I'm trying to get back to heaven? Because it's home, right? It's where my parents live? It's got the best peaches--we do those, you know, point of personal family pride, the peaches, those are ours--and it's like, down here is full of ghosts now? And heaven is full of sages who--there's this one who lives in a waterfall, right, and you'd think that she'd be all about meditation and mastering the flesh through tribulation, but no, she actually just really likes the place, and she's okay with splashing if nobody notices and--"

Suddenly, she really misses home? Like, yeah, it can suck sometimes, but also she knew what was going on over there, and what the rules were, and whether people could actually do the things in that transformation art she keeps seeing, and could… Well, could know how to do things?

"And it would be really, [i]really[/i] great if you didn't get me in trouble, okay? This world is super cool and heaven is super cool, and I wanna go home, but I need to find my parents first, and that's gonna get super hard if the people with the ghosts find me, okay?"