6. In The Garden Of Earthly Delights

“How did you two meet?”  Billy asks.

The three of them are on the bed.  Mallory lies on her back, taking care to stay still while Seth rolls a cigarette on her stomach.  Billy is sprawled across the foot of the bed; looking, for all intents and purposes, like a very expensive, spoiled pet.

“It was the late eighties,” Seth begins.

Interlude: Mallory's Playlist

Mallory is Seth's better half.  She has gentler manners and arguably more of a conscience - but that isn't to say she is any less complicated.  Every time Seth gives into his impulses, it is Mallory who shoulders the guilt.  Unless she's busy indulging her own vices.