THE ATONEMENT

             As a stark contrast, appears suddenly from the darkness, walking slowly. With the necessary caution, the man approaches the group eating around a huge, crackling campfire. Seems an unknown, but to the approach is, received gestures of welcome denouncing that is not a strange.  
     - Eat, eat with us and rest - invites a voice appearing to take control. A chorus of murmurs supports the proposal. The man removed the robe that covers him, spread it on the floor, and above it sits. Then receive a jug with drink and a plate of food.     
      -Unfortunately, I do not travel in for peace, and I can just relax when checking has been done justice - mentions paused, but emphatically. After the first morsel, continues:- but I have hunger and thirst, and not will leave of accept your hospitality, that thank.

      A silence thick as the night responds him.       

     Later, all sleep wrapped in their blankets, feet toward the fire, forming a curious wheel. They look like rays rapidly circulating around the igneous axis.       

        By the morning, the man do not incorporates along with the others. Could be seen a purple patch extended below his neck. Seeing that had been slaughtered, one of the group interrogates to the head:

        -Why do...?

        -We can´t leave behind us someone calling for justice.       

        -Would have added him into the group - suggests another, which receives an angry push of his head.      

        - Impossible-respond the chief to all, nailing then a penetrating gaze on each one Impossible-. Tomorrow will intended to be your boss - and riding a jump on his horse, giving the episode ended.

         The group imitates him, but previously every one is about the corpse, to kick it and then spit it above, with the necessary contempt.

      Above, the birds of preys, each time more numerous, flutter in circles. As riders depart, they will begin to descend to feed.