The rest of the meeting had a taste of déjà vow for the majority of the attendees. Teresa, Lupita and Sergio walked away to talk with privacy. Soon Lupita looked for an excuse to get momentarily away from the boy, and once alone with Teresa, she inquired anxiously:
“Well, tell me in detail about Buenos Aires, Marcelo and you.”
The column moved slowly among rocks impeding the progress once in a while, forcing them to look for picadas to climb to the pass between the mountains. The vegetation was still abundant at 6400 meters above the sea level, due to continuous rains that kept a level of relative humidity close to 100% at all times. The average height of the trees decreased as the expedition climbed the sierra; one hundred feet tall giants had given way to specimens of no more than f
