Tears in Rain by Rosa Montero

Author:Rosa Montero
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Tags: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy
ISBN: 9781612184388
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Published: 2012-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

HUNGRY

The best multi-entertainment center in Madrid

A multipurpose venue to satisfy every conceivable craving.

12 Iris Avenue. Open 24 hours, 365 days of the year.

So Hungry was the name of a club. In fact, she now had a vague recollection of having seen it in ads or on the news. It was a multi-e, as they were referred to colloquially: a mega-entertainment center that accommodated diverse tastes, with restaurants, bars, discos, virtual games, all of them with the latest technology, always emphasizing the spectacular, and with zones dedicated to the tastes of reps and aliens. The rep had been in a multi-e in Paris. And it was quite entertaining. Maybe that was what Bartolo had been referring to with his incessant “hungry”; maybe Cata Caín had hung out in the place. There would be no harm in taking a stroll out that way and checking it out.

Four hours later, Bruna left her apartment wearing a lilac dress, one of her favorites, with the ethereal and luminous gold pectoral hanging around her neck. She was very elegant, maybe overly so, she thought, when she got to Iris Avenue. It was an industrial zone on the outskirts of Madrid. Number 12 was a round, six-story tower. There were no windows except on the top floor, which was occupied by the main restaurant, and the outside walls had a luminous, opalescent overlay that slowly changed color. On the roof there was an enormous sign that said “Hungry” in fiery letters. It must have been some holograph trick. Night had already fallen and the huge lobby of the multi-e was quite full with a motley crowd of people, from young boys who seemed barely over the curfew age, to Kalinians with safety pins stuck through their cheeks, and middle-aged, well-heeled, conventional-looking couples. Bruna stopped in front of one of the interactive information boards and checked out the various options on offer. Above her head, on a public screen, Inmaculada Cruz, the regional president, was furiously talking in the chamber. It seemed that the opposition had moved a censure motion against her. The whole situation continued to unfold with an inexorable escalation in tension. The detective looked around and couldn’t see any other technohuman. She was on her own with her elegant outfit and her gold necklace.

She approached a young man with shaved eyebrows at the information booth in the middle of the lobby and showed him a picture of Cata Caín.

“Does she ring a bell?”

“Oh, yes, poor Caín...We were all horrified,” answered the man matter-of-factly.

“Oh, yes? She was that well known around here? Did she come often?”

“What do you mean, did she come often? Caín worked here...in the lunar disco.”

Bruna frowned.

“Really? Since when? And why didn’t anyone say so? As far as I was aware, Cata had an administrative job with a hotel business.”

“Well, what she did here was just part-time work. She helped with the management of the disco—maintenance, logistics, accounts. She’d been coming here to do a few hours in the afternoon for about four months.

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