Paolo Stevenson Broon's genetic code wis a direct haun-me-doon dae his maternal grandfather, Stevenson Klog.

The Klog faimlie pool wis a bree o grippie east coast insurance men an born-again presbyterian fishwives, lowsed by the lord fae prozac, sex and involuntary hame shoppin. Granfaither Klog never bosied or beardied him when he wis  wee but gart him staun in foostie cupboards in his sterile widower's apartments whenever Paolo bairnishly havered Klog's deid wife's name.

Glowerin numbly throu the keek panel o Omega K624 up on Gallery 1083 on the fifth anniversary fae the day his life pairtner Nadia wis Kistit, Paolo had nae choice but tae acknowledge his thrawn pedigree. The langer he gowked at the recumbant figure ahint the reekit-gless panel, the mair he felt the Klog cauldness tichten roon his hert. As he watched fae the view gate in the Rigo Imbeki Medical Center high up on Montrose Parish, the threid-thin voice o his granfaither kittled in his mind, an Paolo yince mair, when confrontit by the weariest sicht imaginable tae him, foond himsel patently unable tae greet.