Chapter 36
The Sun was already high when Marcelo woke up the next morning. Huacman was already preparing the frugal breakfast that they had become accustomed to. The young man cursed at the beginning by having lost so many hours sleeping, but soon reasoned that their bodies desperately needed that break. When he resumed tracking the footprints, Huacman found that the rain had erased the tracks that they had followed up to that point. “Do not find... I am sorry.” “It is not your fault” replied resignedly Marcelo “ up to here you have guided me well and I can only be grateful.” After a few moments of desperation, he tried to control his thoughts and feelings. Perhaps an appeal to the reasoning could supplement the lack of physical evidence. “At this point already they would have assumed that the
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