The Cote d’Ivoire rebel delegation arrived first in the Togolese capital Lome, Sunday, and settled into one of the upper floors of the city’s once classiest hotel. President Laurent Gbagbo’s representatives showed up on Monday night and were checked into the same hotel, on a different floor, also on the upper levels. But that may be as close as they get, if the early - inauspicious - signs are an indicator of the distance between the two sides, even before they start talking.