"The sudden rain created tendrils under the door, rivulets racing to expand only to sink into the absorbent dirt floor: a light-grey Yamori, a Gecko-like lizard, with its body tense and its nostrils tuned to a flood of new smells released by the downpour, sheltered under the edge of the Genkan entrance step; somewhere a siren: the middle-aged officers' voice asking people to please move out of the way, be careful, we have to get through.....a fire after rain."
