ninety-nine days before
- While smoking cigarettes at the lake (not the Smoking Hole), Alaska, Takumi, the Colonel, and Miles are busted by the Eagle, who gives each one his patented Look of Doom.
- The Eagle expects to see them at Jury (a disciplinary hearing) the next day. As he leaves, Alaska tries to buck authority by taking one more drag, but he catches her and almost smiles.
- Alaska describes the encounter as the eternal struggle of good versus naughty (99before.15).