'Blue'
It all happened on his first humanitarian aid mission to Somalia in 2017. There he witnessed a historic event. He headed a special military unit in which its members were equipped with the latest advances in sustainable technology. Devices to combat endemic diseases, seeds that could bear fruit after hours of being planted, robots with which they communicate with the population, bird robots, known as 'blue' due to their bright and striking plumage, which were actually devices camouflaged with which to recognize the terrain from a certain height and who could also talk to the frightened natives. Upon discovering that a bird asked them questions in their language, the natives imagined all kinds of curses and misfortunes.
Only one half-naked boy in the frightened crowd dared challenge him and issued a challenge, with the proviso that if he failed, the bird would become the boy's.
'Blue' answering with a resounding 'yes'.
The boy then asked him if he knew where the meaning of daldaloulow came from.
The bird consulted the information but time passed and it could not find an answer.
The boy then explained that he could not know because the answer was in the future, in the story entitled 'The perforated thing' (La cosa perforada) that would be published a year later, in 2018.
That was how 'blue' came to belong to the boy.
Sólo un muchacho semidesnudo de entre la asustada multitud se atrevió a desafiarle y le lanzó un reto, con la condición de que si no lo superaba, el pájaro pasaría a pertenecer al muchacho.
'Azul' respondiendo con un rotundo 'sí'.
Entonces el muchacho le preguntó si sabía de dónde procede el significado de daldaloulow.
El pájaro consultó la información pero pasaba el tiempo y éste no conseguía encontrar una respuesta.
El muchacho entonces le explicó que no lo podía saber porque la respuesta estaba en el futuro, en el cuento titulado 'La cosa perforada', que se publicaría un año después, en 2018.
Fue así como 'azul' pasó a pertenecer al muchacho.