The Scam

 

The man had come to the town one morning, then, everything was complicated. It was a long way up there, everything to find that merchant. The memory of the deadly scam tormented him day and night. He was determined to confront and take back everything that had been stolen. The sword  in his left hand was disturbing.  From the distance and between the mists, a little business with  lights was shining.

The man was walking to the business; the air was impregnated with scent of alcohol. Behind the counter of establishing a shadow moved with alacrity. It was the business man. He was frightened. He quickly hid a knife in his pocket to defend himself in case the meeting took a wrong way.  Terrified to see who was, he went out to the back door and hid in the bathroom.

He does not know what to do. Instinctively he thought of how to defend against the inevitable. He heard steps approaching to the bathroom. Desperate, he looked at a window glass that was there. With his fist he broke the glass. He jumped out the window and went to a small road that went to the central part of town. Behind him was a faint trace of blood that dripped from his fist.

The merchant, who abused of the trust that was placed in him by man, was terrified. He started to run. Like 10 minutes later he looked to the back of the road. Seeing no one, he thought: I have escaped.  He was laughing, but the laugh was of short duration. Because the man, hungry for justice, emerged from the dense vegetation; and surprised the merchant.  The merchant took out his knife and approached it to the man's neck. Given this unexpected event, the man surprised the merchant  with fencing steps learned at the last harvest.

Seeing the ability of the man with that sword, knowing that at any moment he would be a dead man, with broken voice, the merchant began to give apologizes very loud, to the four winds. The man without thought, take up the sword he was carrying in his left hand. Suddenly a light was coming on four wheels. The light was reflected in the man marriage ring, which still had smell of jewelry. As of nowhere, they walked on the hands of wind and suddenly the seconds seemed an eternity, like when you fall from a chair. They fell to the ground and screaming of pain and they lost consciousness.

When they awoke, they were in a hospital type XXI century, with fluorescent lights and speakers who called who knows who. The two men were there, only a curtain divided them, for their misfortune the curtain was attached to the side of one wall. Also they could only look at each other face because they were motionless. They could only move their necks.  Down the hall, a woman who scratched the ground was getting closer. Her red dress was witness of a shared love. She opened the bedroom door, and looked to the men, in that moment; the world was tattooed with the memory of a scam of love.