Mar settled into the semi-private train car. The chubby little tanuki treated train rides the way many people treated cruises. These days there weren’t very many trains that ran in this old-fashioned, sleeper-car sort of way. This was what they called a “suite” on the ticket, but it was basically just a pair of wide, bench-style seats facing each other. Each was probably wide enough for three people to sit side-by-side if they were willing to get a little familiar with one anot