XVI
awoke during the night. His mouth was dry, the wound will dolíay forehead was burning.
"surely had to be infected ..." "said the stranger.
had had a tiring day.
crossed the remnants of the outskirts of the city to go into it. Crossed neighborhoods and parks away from the highway when necessary. Skirted a large cross that had become a giant scrap montonera and prepared to spend the night in the ruins of an old hotel scorched. Junto a ellos, el esqueleto saqueado de unos grandes almacenes.
Una enorme explanada languidecía al atardecer.
Allí, cerca del puente que cruzaba el antiguo cauce del río, acamparon.
La jornada había sido tensa. Apenas le dirigieron la palabra y notaba en sus recelosas miradas como seguían viendole como el único culpable de lo ocurrido.
De alguna manera, parecían pensar, había matado a su compañero, se había limpiado para no despertar sospechas y preparado la trampa que había terminado con otros dos de sus secuaces.
I knew this was not going to end well. Had just entered the city and now travel conditions they would harden.
This could not end well.
blinked in the dark and could see the embers of the small fire they had lighted their captors. Gradually made out the sleeping form of one of them and their side, staring at him, the other, who wasted no detail of everything he did.
took some water and offered it to his guardian refused while looking.
"I need to pee," he said "How do I ...?
"Do not go too far," replied the krustie as he stood waving his stake.
"The Stranger" went to a neighbor's wall building at the corner is layered with urination.
looked up.
He looked around, after the cantons.
A moving cloud of dust stirred by the night wind. A pile of rubble not far from there. The remains of a vehicle printed at a kiosk, trash abandoned mall, rusty shopping carts, most of them without wheels, forming a rusty heap ...
Suddenly something struck him. Before him, silhouetted in the pale moonlight, he saw a package could not identify.
"Some kind of optical effect caused by fever, fatigue, sleep ..." mused absently.
finished pissing and when I was about to return "the effect" seemed to come vida y empezar a moverse.
Una figura claramente humana se incorporó.
Un extraña luz ardía donde debían estar los ojos de aquella silueta.
Un fuego que le miraba directamente.
Una luz que le atravesaba.
"Un krustie, sin lugar a dudas." -pensó mientras se preparaba para dar la alerta, lo último que quería ahora era verse envuelto en una guerra de bandas en la que cada una de ellas pensara que trabajaba para la otra.
Sin embargo algo le detuvo.
"Demasiado flaco, demasiado frágil..."
"Too young, maybe?" - Thought while looking at
.
was something even stranger in that figure. Something that could not achieve.
Something very strange.
Suddenly the shadow had disappeared without trace or noise.
surprised and blinked his eyes traveled around the area while returning again and again to the initial place.
no trace of the visitor. He
with their captors.
Torn between these and other thoughts tried to sleep.
was impossible.
I kept mulling over what had happened until finally noticed the strange detail that made him uneasy.
krustie not seen one without a beard in his life ...
(continued)
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