THE BLUE FEATHER
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you’ll enjoy your evening, Tital. Remember, all things have their
place and time. Now, write down your address and sign your
name for me, I don’t want your mother thinking I’m a stranger.
By the way, what time do you want me to see your mother—
now, or twenty minutes after you left home in Cancún?”
“You mean…you could give her the gold just twenty minutes
after I left home?”
“Of course, I’m a Spirit, remember! Which do you prefer?”
“Give it to her twenty minutes after I left home, I’ve been
worried all this time...”
“Time...what is time, when you are a Spirit?” Ek Chuah said,
opening his door to get out of the truck. Ek Chuah pointed his
long finger out in front of him and a glowing, swirling mist
appeared. He walked forward towards it, singing along the way
with Willie Nelson on his iPod. He vanished into the mist, and it
soon dissipated.
The whole crew unloaded from the Ford trucks, and as Tital
reached up to unlock the horse trailer door, Kuó said, “It’s getting
brighter, much brighter, your ring.”
“What does it mean the glowing?” Viviana asked.
“I don’t know,” Tital replied, “I really don’t know. Come on,
let’s get the horses unloaded. They need a little exercise, and
give each a big drink of water.”
Moka and Eegh riding their horses, nearly stopped traffic. It
was as if no one had ever seen two monkeys riding horses
before. Cars would slow down, and honk their horns. Tital could
see children riding by would aim their cell phone cameras out the
windows of their cars and take pictures of Moka and Eegh riding
around. One of the older pickup trucks coming from the north