terle ars and spitting acid rain. ter on t reflected a kaleidoscopic film of mystery c mirrored tate of Caldo focus s on t    trayed tano less.    an absolutely pointless o die.

        o find Kat, t could pass as a friend, to say goodbye. S t    t letting    going to die    doing t. Altact very rarely retly, Caldrying to make a living, a strong unbreakable boed bet    beyond tionships.

        t in terloo at a time e ly blacked out from t e floor of one of trian tunnels. Above ill body a cacop. Pedestrians no longer ventured beloo t of a not totally irrational fear for ty.

        So tocopier box t formed ter ed, a loomed dark and mysterious in front of     memory t Cald involved anot    beyond t t she had rescued him.

        After    more about    to t o destru paved by tion ed. An anization o be part of t coldly spat    into tion of aterloo. hem pay.

        ed into aterloo station, tly betrapezoid steel lattices of aterle, vibrations rumbliation itself lig s pure    sky. ts a yscape ts of affluent living rooms blinked in t.

        “I    of tem once,” Caldtered under    of tem.” . Luckily terproof lining and tic leater out.

        Caldrudged to quied icipation of    make mucoo quickly.    did t city s of lost memories? ould    affe for the place?

        triggered by Fouler al-clear in    in se desire to remember. Caldo blaterlaced    neons of t. s of a city antly reacy upon y piled oop ted only by a te and steel and trappings of interior decoration. ried to anticipate t riggered by t, resisting to look at it rig to ure of good last gesture but he was also curious.

        c ime. It    10.00PM. te drones ired to ts to ions before anotab at glomerate serfdom. aterloo oer 9.00PM, except for te rundling toation to catce expresses t sed people around t expanse of t too dangerous, b as it did t London.

        At ts flickered as bridge d fading makes fires. Caldenance ladder by t imes before. , ting darkly beloo tels of trand    from one. On luigill in t past tes. to not care about tyles. reets, salmon tasted good even tle off. Eat tuff not trips. On bad nigarve or feed on bits of left over fast food in crusyrofoam boxes.    No, a place o ever afford visiting.

        Caldo a sea of cardboard, pag pallets and Styrofoam. terials of    iter reinforced ic fiber pallets and old Salvation Army blas. Plastic fiber her.

        tyrofoam t expanded before    once familiar and alien. It seemed like tants ting bigger and more aestie even iple    you accessed t plastinels made out of fused ced from ts of industrial and pical s. In tance Cald tuo some fn el.

        Despite t durned inct smell of stale vomit in tarted to acted Kat ination. S like to stay in toucime, preferring to touc heir lives.

        S one day    tel, to tigropor embedded in tic ceiling. Sively    everyt all unnels as a baby. A young teenage couple sleeping rouged il one nig ampamines appropriated from t drug pusok. Siants aken turns taking care of il seenager and o fend for herself.

        tless frost-deformed toes peeping out of cardboard flaps. Garised fingernails lay limp on te floors as tose in alco roed douears    t    and all t seemed o the Union.

        As Calder for ed otill ook a rig a Styrofoam d. Its oo ttle of c trance. A    to it. Loud irregular snores suggested t the owner was asleep.

        Caldion u    eel ceiling above rumbled ation. t of ter. Someo bulb off tric cables t fed poo tracks above. tion    miss tricity.

        t tion. One    ’s. t    and uff. self. he could feel her presence.

        Calded t’s cardboard abode and peeped ierior ted a emitted a faint ligon t till tion tacked ceiling-o one side. A broken sole, its innards torn open, lay on t looked like Kat, a self-fessed Luddite, rying to build a puter.

        A y bottle of ext to a cea cup.    eto ts of ligo t tarring somebody ’s Sim Film unit sded meant only ohe cardboard flap.

        Caldo tunnel and took a left turn. tion of ter    brig received lige    t rian tunnels ies epped tly-lit covered o eures t tractive to trips on to transform to some kind of human zoo.

        tic uated smack bang in ty but terloo Station or from nearby corporate buildings. On t to see, trips, uo he homeless.

        Cald top.    teel of terior. Cald sounded like it h his skin.

        o to tenance s and started to climb.    to top and ill    to ttle al slats t made up tion flased against ts but s turn    looking ts. Caldo the dome.

        t ail from projectors io tage beloreet se looked real. Some of t of t, i c like t looked    ly. Caldook off    and    around cigransfixed by the holoDome.

        ***

        Kat crao    ly uically searcs burre fort. Swo cups of sake and offered him one.

        “It’s been a while,” she said, finally.

        “Yeah. You’re looking well.”

        “So are you,” s signature gesture of ood    meant but    it approximated someto excitement.    strange surreal quality t Calded or otreaked    too long and needed a housand movies.

        “t be going ion of the sake.

        “O? Nerand. tuff out back.”

        “turning ally rendered mask of Kenzo Yamamoto’s face.

        “Sure seems t ’s of good flicks ing from out of there.”

        Kat took movies more seriously t was y.

        “Look Kat, I am leaving to hong Kong for a job.”

        “ even begin to imagine ’s like. In rical ered t senteold Cald sing from a movie as sed itself.

        “huh?”

        “It’s from tingray.”

        “Aingray.

        “If t tinued.

        “I kno one. Letraighs of sequel hell.”

        “Yeaalked about e subject.

        “So o land trip to hong Kong?”

        Caldold o Fouler’s appearance. old    ement at finding out    and about iful so. ly left out talking about er racked aking iering it y of tor’s camera. S so mu to tory as picture it. old    Fouler and    t point ure of an a meical camera.

        “ you trust    uny ability to get to the crux of an issue quickly.

        “I don’t knorust    kill you or set you free,” Calded.

        “tender. And don’t t    me off t.”

        “I think I’ll be OK.”

        “It migrick.”

        “tards o my memory, to my past. t t back.”

        S    inexplicable mental e t tied togetoying ted puter on the floor.

        “Found t Street, discarded by one of t broadss. ters do most of tuff o    was    her clumsy awkward way.

        “Yeaart le it.”

        S roeet reverberated ed h life.

        “Man is destructive by nature. Im sure t you and t I am going tructive phase.”

        “as t anote?”

        “Yeaalking.”

        “Cool!”

        “Do you kno?” she asked.

        “No idea. I knoers.”

        “I ed to keep in touunicate in and uand your world.”

        “Really? t’s so s. It’s not nearly as muc seems,” Caldwell said, leaning forward and giving her a quick hug.

        “Also, one of to t online movie arc stuff.”

        “I kneo be another reason.”

        “I am ’s up and running    me access it. Do you t work for me?”

        “It’ll take forever.”

        “Really?”

        “Yes, but I ter idea. It’s about time you left t.    I ask Fouler to let you move into Glypil I get back?    er you’ll ever need.”

        “ould love to Cad but t afford    and t go back to his plaosing around.”

        “I am guessing t I’ll get my o take care of it.”

        “And t like t?”

        “Definitely. I ’s an insignifit expense for them.”

        “ell, I do    to get out of    going to pretend I am in love ,’ sfully. Cald in for the kill before she could ge her mind.

        “But you’ll o all t site you mentioned and I once ion o em.”

        t did trick. Kat’s eyes lit up icipation and he knew she was sold.

        “Deal,” sarted looking around    need some clot go as , I mig be ing back.”

        “true. e sonigo look around Glypo t tomorroo tigle of cardboard, no matter algic . t t Fouler    s ing out of darkness    lost on    t ill o started meto a pale green duffel bag, es later, so go.

        “Anyone you o say goodbye to?”

        “Not really. Anybody t matters is long gone.”

        “I e to interrupt t of burgeoning intimacy, but lets get t of ing a line from Deep Blue Sea.    on a    features broke into an appreciative smile.
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