Sunday, November 10, 2019

The Boat - La barca


The boat

Swayed by the waves, the boat waits for its boatman. Eager to redraw foam and blue stelae under his loving guidance. But he doesn't arrive. She quietly counts the minutes and consoles herself thinking that sometimes it has happened. But today, she doesn't know why, something tells her it's different. 

She doesn't know that she will never see her boatman again.

La barca

Mecida por las olas, la barca espera a su barquero. Ansiosa por volver a trazar estelas de espuma y azul bajo su amorosa guía. Pero no llega. Cuenta en silencio los minutos y  se consuela pensando que algunas veces ha ocurrido. Pero hoy, no sabe por qué, algo le dice que es distinto. 

No sabe que nunca más volverá a ver a su barquero.

Handkerchiefs 29 - Pañuelos 29


Lilith and Benfold

But Benfold didn't reveal the whole truth to Huntington. Lilith had initiated a plan to return home, directly involving Benfold. What Huntington ignored was that Lilith and Benfold were old friends. Their friendship dated back to the time when Gorga had not been exploited by bird men.
Returning to the facilities that Huntington had built with great effort, the lights, bright at certain times and dim at others, accompanied the beings of the animalarium. Thus, by means of a code inserted in the beams of light, they were programmed to perform certain actions or develop abilities such as speech or telepathy.
When Huntington learned of the existence of small beings, he did not lose an instant to begin his search. He was a systematic man and began his inquiries through the garden. It did not occur to him that they could be hidden in the dog house, nor did he relate the escape of the dog with the presence of small beings. His intuition was telling him that they would not have dared to enter the house, so they had to be in any part of the garden, a large expanse of land in the center of which was the animal facility, a much larger construction than the house, located in a small hill near the city.


Lilith y Benfold

Pero Benfold no le reveló toda la verdad a Huntington. Lilith había iniciado un plan para volver a casa, que implicaba directamente a Benfold. Lo que ignoraba Huntington era que Lilith y Benfold eran viejos amigos. Su amistad se remontaba a la época en la que Gorga no había sido explotado por los hombres pájaro.
Volviendo a las instalaciones que Huntington había ido levantando con mucho esfuerzo, las luces, brillantes en ciertos momentos y tenues en otros, acompañaban a los seres del animalario. Así, mediante un código insertado en los haces de luz, se les programaba para realizar determinadas acciones o desarrollar capacidades como el habla o la telepatía.
Cuando Huntington supo de la existencia de los pequeños seres, no perdió un instante para comenzar su búsqueda. Era un hombre sistemático y empezó sus indagaciones por el jardín. No se le ocurrió que podían estar ocultos en la caseta del perro, ni relacionó la huida del can con la presencia de los pequeños seres. Su intuición le decía que no se habrían atrevido a entrar en la casa, así que debían andar por el jardín, una gran extensión de terreno en cuyo centro se encontraba el animalario, una construcción mucho más grande que la casa, situada en una pequeña colina cerca de la ciudad.