Chapter Thirty-Four: The Village AwakesThey spent the night at the mill. In the morning, Luis rose early and went outside. The air was already warm and so thick you could cut it with a knife. Something else hung in the air; the bitter, sharp stench of death.
When the smell, like nothing he had ever experienced before, hit him he almost vomited right there and then. It invaded his nostrils and he gagged, turned back into the room and groped around for some water. Constanza and his mother still slept. He was glad of that.
He found a water gourd amongst some abandoned belongings in the far corner, near the foot of the spiral staircase. Splashing himself, he found a bandana and wrapped it around his mouth and nose and went outside again. The heat was intense. Out in the open, exposed with no
