Exile
“The thought pops into my head, but the name does not come with a face or form. I worry at the edges of it as I walk down the hill towards the internet café, then push it out of my mind as I enter the narrow, air- conditioned chamber filled with machines and wiring. Put it down to just another of the weird lacunae in my memory.
I consult the lurid signage on the walls and hand the man behind the bulletproof booth a fiver. He hands me a token and jerks his head at the room full of computers. ...‘It’ll warn you when your time’s almost up,’ he says.
There are only two other people here. A sour- smelling gent near the door, who glances up at me shiftily before dropping his shoulders and turning back to face his screen; and an Asian kid in the far corner who looks about fifteen but is probably in his twenties.
I head in the kid’s direction. He’s playing some ultra-violent warfare game that involves a lot of flame-throwing, fancy weaponry and people dying in agony in extreme close-up.MoreLess
I consult the lurid signage on the walls and hand the man behind the bulletproof booth a fiver. He hands me a token and jerks his head at the room full of computers. ...‘It’ll warn you when your time’s almost up,’ he says.
There are only two other people here. A sour- smelling gent near the door, who glances up at me shiftily before dropping his shoulders and turning back to face his screen; and an Asian kid in the far corner who looks about fifteen but is probably in his twenties.
I head in the kid’s direction. He’s playing some ultra-violent warfare game that involves a lot of flame-throwing, fancy weaponry and people dying in agony in extreme close-up.MoreLess
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