The Quagmire

A mantle of dark green silt covered the roots that jumped of inside of the land. To far one saw great small trees with its long arms opened for the sky in an shout of clemency of the suffocating mantle of the plants parasites that went down in long braids and went up as immense serpents. In the hollow trunks and decayed roots insects: strange scorpions, lacraias, beetles of all the formats jumped for the ground. In the sky bees and mosquitos they dived inside in clouds of the capinzal. Strange sounds saw, all the moment, to dive in the ears of our travellers, sounds as: to jam of dry twigs, alucinantes shouts, howl of the wind. An agonizing choir that fulled the quagmire all.

When seeing that Antenor place gave a step stops backwards and stumbled at a trunk and falls of coast. There lying it saw, for its astonishment, a great black spider preparing its teia. The spider ran of a side for the other with its long legs weaveeing a great mantle in form of net with a long wire that leaves a small orifice located in abdome the jenny, almost transparent. At this moment, a small fly, careless way, beat in the teia and were imprisoned, despaired insistently tried if to exempt, the more if it debated imprisoned more was, its agitation called the attention the spider that in great speed it dived against the fly it involved and it with a shroud. Scared, Antenor if raised quickly and if it played on of Gordon that slip and falls in the soil.

Quaternary Age

– I better find to look them a shelter to me and to wait Olavo carrying in them. I suggested, offering the arm for Karen if to support. – We go to look a safe place to be and to wait that Olavo in the light one in return. Jeremias said. We remain some time seated in the high one of a rochedo until, finally, Olavo in them carried atravez from the time in direction the Quaternary Age. The machine of the time took in them for the year of 2004, but impulse was not lingered, took and continued route to the future! 2003, 2004, 2005. Some time later, when the machine stopped, the calendar marked the year of 5.491! – I do not believe that Olavo is making this on purpose! Exclamou Jeremias.

– What it happened with the River? It inquired Karen around, looking at. The region if becomes a desert, of the city alone remained rubbles, some building in ruins was inside of the sea, to few meters of where it was them to me. The level of the sea if had raised and covered part of the city. The intense sun reflected in dunes dimming our eyes. – We go to look a shade. Jeremias said. – Some thing Has if moving there.

Karen said, pointing a band of sand to the north. In the distance we distiguimos a dark, trembling spot in way to the heat emanations that if raised of the hot sand. It did not give to know what it was. To the few the spot was taking form and finally we distinguish a figure human being, who if approached. The youngster dressing cinereous clothes with pointed hood saw in them and hurried the step. – Ola! Who is vocs? Of where they had come? – We are travelling of the time. We came of century twenty and one.

Amazement

then Rodolfo travelled for the south. was a weekend and in such a way! Elaine passed most of the time in the course that frequentava, but at night, they left supper, they always drank a good wine, if they amused very and they made love. But Saturday and the sunday had passed fast. Rodolfo daily continued telephoning for Elaine. It was gotten passionate. No woman in such a way fascinates it how much that well decided balzaquiana. Elaine counted jokes, time in when it said a palavro, she was well humorada and amused.

Rodolfo tried, some times, to combine with Elaine to go until the capital to visit it, but without success. Elaine started to be evasion until leaving to take care of the phone calls completely. Rodolfo did not obtain to understand the situation. One was not satisfied with the fact to have taken a rejection of a woman. It was always who decided if the relationships continued or finished, but that one is so atypical It decided to look for Antonio. Who knows Valria could not say some thing? But the relationship of Antonio with the cousin of Elaine also finishes. Rodolfo decided to insist. Not, one was not about a rejection.

' ' It does not take care of my phone calls because she assists many surgeries, makes courses, of the plantes Valley the penalty insistir' '. But and if Elaine had if tired of it? if it found it sticky, grudento? if it had known another person? She only had a skill to know. She telephoned for Elaine in Saturday to the afternoon, made use to place the nugget in is. After all, it was a man and could aguentar any thing. Strangely, a child took care of the cellular one. Rodolfo asked if to that age the telephone of Elaine. The child answered that yes, but the telephone was taken by its hand and the voice of a woman said: ' ' Elaine owner was to the purchases with the husband. She would like to leave some message? ' ' Amazement, Rodolfo was thankful and disconnect. It are been deceptive. That balzaquiana candy, amused and make it to insurance of silly. He uses it and he excuses it with if it was dismissable. He was arrasado. He looked for Antonio and counted its misfortune to it. The friend only said: ' ' Stranger this its reaction, Rodolfo! During the time where she was married, she was as soon as you if she held ' '