TALES THAT ARE NOT TALES

Road to the South

They were heading south along the road leading to where the world ends, with a destination not so distant, but in the same way that travel hundreds of vehicles daily linking the last border with the city. They had hardly gone about fifty kilometers when they spotted a roadhouse on the shoulder of the opposite hand. A small space bordered by old eucalyptus trees where three tables surrounded cement banks the same material, perfectly painted white inviting rest. And in an area where the city gives way to the countryside, and where people no longer saw around the route and only vehicles passing incessantly disturb the tranquility of the place. It had dawned just an hour back and think about some mates or coffee under the sun of that summer morning or in the shade cold of the trees was an invitation that no one could resist, especially if it was enhanced with the image of a family already he enjoyed such pleasure. They were not tired, and the height of the road did not justify the arrest, but in their hearts began to feel the tranquility of having reached the destination.

She asked if he had seen the place when there were few meters to the car to leave him behind, so he nodded. Meters later, he proposed to stop him a few minutes less to take some mates and then go, and she gladly accepted. They had to walk almost a kilometer to find a place to get back on track. An entrance to a field gave them the excuse and, from there, changed the direction retracing the route. They came to the place, and while he settled the car, she dropped to breathe and enjoy the scent of trees and flowers there. It was enough to take a step towards the resting place when the image of an ethereal and luminous woman blocked her way. Without speaking audibly told him to stay away, they still were on time, it was not what they saw, and asked him to look at the time. She did and saw several people and some children whose bodies seemed to vanish into thin air, but whose faces denoting the pain and anguish I had ever seen, altered he turned his eyes to the family was eating breakfast, and there was nothing. He looked back to the ethereal woman who continued to speak to him without words; he said it was a trap for souls who entered there never would. Frightened looked at the car, her husband was still inside looking for something and next to the door to an ethereal man flanked departure. The fear of the unknown and disturbed her before he said anything the woman said she had nothing to think about, they should just leave. Curiosa looked back and box relentless pain that these people were subject to seemed to cease. He ran to the car and went inside. Her husband was still looking for something that suddenly found when she rose. She asked him to leave altered there at the time, not understanding looked out and saw that the place was empty, requested by the family, and she only managed to ask back to the road. Without knowledge did during the trip and explained what he had lived. I could not believe him, and all that, if you looked, was that the royal family had been in the period in which he sought the keys broth strangely had him and had failed to locate inside the car until she entered.

He was recovering from the terror caused by what he had seen when they reached a service station. He suggested that she go downstairs and have a drink so that she could calm down. While she required the toilette to cool off, her husband ordered two coffees with cream and started talking to the waiter, a man in his sixties. When they told him about the picnicking where they had tried to stop, he said to them that there was nothing there, that there was no point in putting a picnicking so close to the city. He insisted and asked the cashier, another older man, who gave him the same answer. When she returned, and while they were having coffee, he told what those men had told him. It was so fantastic everything they agreed to return to the place. They go back, but they found neither the eucalyptus, nor the benches, nor the tables. They recorded three kilometers to the city from the place where they had resumed and returned to their way south without seeing the lug again.