terloo Bridge ars and spitting acid rain. ter on t reflected a kaleidoscopic film of mystery c mirrored tate of Caldo focus s on t  trayed tance no 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 recently, Caldrying to make a living, a strong unbreakable bond existed bet  beyond tionships.

    t in terloo at a time ense t 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 destruction paved by tion ed. An organization o be part of t coldly spat  into tion of aterloo. hem pay.

    ed into aterloo station, tly betrapezoid steel lattices of aterloo Bridge, vibrations rumbling te. tation 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 quickened icipation of  make mucoo quickly.  did t city s of lost memories? ould  affection for the place?

    triggered by Fouler al-clear in  in se desire to remember. Caldo black interlaced  neons of t. s of a city antly reacy upon y piled one atop 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 conglomerate serfdom. aterloo oer 9.00PM, except for te rundling toation to catce expresses t sed people around t expanse of t too dangerous, bordering 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 on urning from one. On lucky nigill 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, packing pallets and Styrofoam. terials of cyrofoam in ter, tter reinforced ic fiber pallets and old Salvation Army blankets. Plastic fiber her.

    tyrofoam t expanded before  once familiar and alien. It seemed like tants ting bigger and more aestic. Some even iple  you accessed t plastic tunnels made out of fused ced from ts of industrial and pical concerns. In tance Cald tuned to some foreign channel.

    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 clean everyt all unnels as a baby. A young teenage couple sleeping rouged il one nig ampamines appropriated from t drug pusok. Since tants aken turns taking care of il seenager and o fend for herself.

    countless frost-deformed toes peeping out of cardboard flaps. Garised fingernails lay limp on te floors as tose in alco overgroed doune. tears  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 under t  eel ceiling above rumbled ation. t of ter. Someone t bulb off tric cables t fed poo tracks above. tion  miss tricity.

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

    Calded t’s cardboard abode and peeped inside. terior ted ance t emitted a faint ligon t till tion tacked ceiling-o one side. A broken console, its innards torn open, lay on t looked like Kat, a self-confessed Luddite, rying to build a computer.

    A y bottle of c next to a cea cup.  eto ts of ligo t tarring somebody ’s Sim Film unit sctended meant only one t the cardboard flap.

    Caldo tunnel and took a left turn. tion of ter  brig received lige  t rian tunnels ies epped tly-lit covered o ensure t tures 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, unate  to 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 inside to tage beloreet scene looked real. Some of t of t, inside t c like t looked  ly. Caldook off  and  around cigransfixed by the holoDome.

    ***

    Kat crao  ly uneartically searcs burro  srange comfort. 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 coming 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 sentence told Cald sing from a movie as sed itself.

    “huh?”

    “It’s from tingray.”

    “Aingray.

    “If t continued.

    “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 in everytering it y of tor’s camera. S so mucen to tory as picture it. old  Fouler and  t point ure of an ancient mechanical camera.

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

    “I don’t knorust can 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 connection t tied togetoying ted computer on the floor.

    “Found t Street, discarded by one of t broadss. ters do most of tuff o  was c in 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 touco communicate in and understand 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 place nosing around.”

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

    “And t like t?”

    “Definitely. I ’s an insignificant 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 change her mind.

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

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

    “Anyone you need to 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.  once in a  features broke into an appreciative smile.