Mundi

Mundi in "Artes Veritas"

**Mundi** lived in the Green World.

Although she was not known to have any Guardian blood, no other versions of her were encountered across the Parallax.

## Biography

Mundi was a kind-hearted, intelligent and level-headed girl who was deeply attuned to nature. She was a Forester who was committed to maintaining the trees and the ecological balance of the area. From the time that she was a young child, she could easily identify the different smells emitted by individual people, plants, animals and weather patterns. She also had a beautiful singing voice.

Mundi projected a confident and calm demeanour and preferred to find solutions rather than focus on problems or assign blame. Even so, she was occasionally frustrated by Ben's impulsiveness and lack of forethought, though to nowhere near the same extent as Katherine.

Unlike most of the other Foresters, she never laughed at Martin or called him "Townie."

She first met Ben when he stumbled into her world after accidentally hitting the Parallax symbol above the portal in the Red World and changing the destination. She advised him against trying to return to his own world until the nearby Krellick swarm had dispersed. Mundi did not believe that his idea of walking on stilts to evade them would prove successful. She was proven correct when one Krellick cut the stilts with its claws and scratched him. Several days later, she helped Francis Zapmeister, Melinda, Una and Due to kill the Krellicks using Super Soakers in order to obtain the antidote for Ben's infection.

Shortly afterwards, Veronica sent Katherine on a "quest" to the Green World. It was designed to teach the uptight Katherine that she should let her hair down from time to time. Katherine's visit coincided with the Quarter Moon Eve party, a regular occurrence in this version of Werrinup. Although Katherine initially believed that the music being played had no practical value, she eventually relented and had a great time. She thanked Mundi for helping her to realise the benefit of music and dancing for the purposes of relaxation. The two girls bonded and quickly became close friends.

After Veronica learned that Betti had almost succeeding in tracking down herself, Ben and Katherine, Mundi offered them sanctuary in Otto's old hut. She overheard Ben, who had recently learned that his father was Stefan rather than Jeremy, angrily tell his mother that she had been lying to him his entire life. Sympathising with Veronica's plight, Mundi told Ben to stop thinking about himself and to instead consider how hard it must have been for Veronica to leave Stefan and Katherine when she found out that she was pregnant with him.

When Ben discovered a painted egg in Otto's hut, Mundi explained that Otto had received it from Mrs. Dawes, who made them by the hundreds and gave them to everyone in the Green World. She added that Mrs. Dawes was super sensitive about them and could be "downright not very nice." However, Ben was determined to speak to her as the presence of a Mrs. Dawes in other worlds indicated that a portal was in the vicinity. After travelling to Mrs. Dawes' hut, they noticed the Parallax symbol on a nearby rock cavern and realised that they had found a new portal. However, the cavern held a Krellick nest and even the short-sighted Ben thought better of approaching it until the Krellicks were dealt with.

Betti eventually discovered that Veronica had been using her stave to send coded messages and decided to set a trap. She hid her stave under her hat and told her sister of her plan to send the Krellicks to the Silver World as a prelude to blandishing it. Mundi and Ben heard Betti's plan over the stave and informed Katherine. Equipped with Super Soakers, Mundi, Ben, Katherine, Francis Zapmeister, Una, Due, Melinda, Jeremy and Stefan were able to defeat the Krellicks with the help of the Mr. Short of the Silver World. A senior municipial employee who worked in Werrinup's park, he turned on the sprinklers in the park at Ben's request and the water killed all the Krellicks. Although the Parallax gang had won the battle, Betti won the war as she enacted her plan to infect the Silver World Werrinup's entire water supply with the blandishing substance. Aberrants, including Mr. Short, began disappearing.

Some time later, Ben noticed a hexagonal marking on the floor in Otto's old hut and wondered what it was caused by. Mundi recalled that Otto had had a wooden pedestal with a "glass thingamajiggy," which he never allowed anyone to touch. Ben realised that it must have some connection to his being a Guardian and speculated that it might even lead them to the Reading Room, the fount of knowledge for the entire Parallax. As Katherine and Mundi had once seen Mrs. Dawes exiting the hut, they determined that she must have taken the pedestal. When they asked her about it, Mrs. Dawes admitted that she had taken it as a memento of her so-called beautiful friendship with Otto. Although the plan was for Katherine and Mundi to do the talking, it was Ben who managed to convince her to part with it by claiming that it could help them to find Otto if he were in trouble.

When they brought the stand back to Otto's hut, Mundi tried turning off the lights in case it worked like a sundial. When she did so, she remembered that one large white lightbulb had not worked since Otto had left. This allowed Ben to figure out that the supposed lightbulb was actually the orb that had once rested on the pedestal. With Mundi's assistance, Katherine tried to analyse the orb but to no avail. Ben and Katherine finally realised that it was a record of the destruction of Otto's world when they touched it together. From that, they concluded that it only worked when they both touched it as each of them only had 50% Guardian blood.

## Appearances

* "Artes Veritas"
* "The Battle of Mundi's World"
* "The Big Sleep-Over"
* "The Martin Crimes"
* "The Curse of the Incredibly Bad News"
* "Decoy"
* "Too Many Chiefs"
* "Ex-Ben"
* "Dad Meets Dad"
* "The Krellick War"
* "The Reluctant Guardian"
* "My Favourite Martin"
* "Martinmania"