MUNDI

I meet Mundi in a dark alleyway. He's happy to see me. He says he's turned a new page, changed his life. He got rid of all his old friends and got a bunch of new ones, mostly people his parents know. He's also stopped drinking. I have a pint of beer in my hand and he hands me a glass filled with a dilute gold fluid: Sprite and Magic.

He says he's going to see a new friend. He hands me a polaroid of an asian guy in his thirties sitting at a black dining table, in a black turtleneck, hair combed back. Then he hands me a polaroid of his new best friend, an asian lady in her thirties at the same table. She has a gold top on and an awkward laugh on her face. He leads me through a small lobby of glass and black metal, up some black metal stairs. He's quick and excited. He says he's glad he ran into me because I'll probably fit right in to his new life. I'm a bit skeptical of the polaroids.