Opaque Memories: Hallowed Blues 2

By Isaiah Fields

HE IS MORE... AND NEVER WHAT SHE OR ANYONE CAN EVER IMAGINE
IN THE DEEP SHADOWS OF THE JUNGLE LIES THE SECRET

More and more evidence is telling Camila that Javier is more than what he can remember. She cannot put it aside anymore. He is someone supernatural -- but what?

A research team has arrived as guests in her parents' Bed & Breakfast and Camila and Javier have to come along their exploration of the jungle for the sacred cenotes as volunteers. The coming of the American's, especially of the cocky per Drew, instantly put pressure on Camila and Javier's budding relationship. But as they go deeper into the jungle, Javier begins to see familiar surroundings that trigger in him horrible memories of being sacrificed. And Camila doesn't know how to help him.

But lost memories aren't the only things lurking in the forest. There is also danger, and it is about to ambush Camila and Javier, and their guests....

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“Well, he makes some decent food,” Meryse said, scooping some of the mix onto a tortilla.

Camila did the same and bit into hers. It was good, compared to the canned eggs.

“Yeah, but–”

Whatever Drew was supposed to say was cut off by a wailing noise.

“Monkeys?” Adam asked, looking at Camila.

It took Camila an embarrassingly long time to realize that the noise was human and that it came from Javier. She jumped up from her folding chair and followed the sound, crashing through the tangle of foliage that snaked around her legs and caught her hair.

She hadn’t gone twenty feet when she stumbled into a small clearing. A moss-covered stone pillar stood right in the middle of it. It was covered in the intricate spiral carvings that were typical of Mayan – or imitation of Mayan – artwork.

On the ground, below the stone pillar, was Javier, rocking back and forth, banging his head with a terrifying force against it.

“Javier! What are you doing?!” she cried as she ran towards him, pulling him away from the stone pillar. He had scraped a good patch of skin off his forehead and blood was running down his face. She swore softly and stripped off his T-shirt to staunch the blood. All the time, he was mumbling something.

“I remember,” he sobbed. “I was being made ready – the paint was on my body, the markings were clean and I was pure. They tied a stone to my feet and threw me into the green waters and I sank. But something wasn't right – this wasn't at all like what they'd prepared me for. I was supposed to breathe in the water but I’m sinking too quickly and I can't... I couldn't' do it. And then I realized I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to die–”

“What are you talking about?” Camila demanded, bewildered.

“I was a human sacrifice!” Javier said. The expression on his face was as horrified as hers. “I was tossed into one of these holes to die!”

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Sandra Ross
• Release date: Sep 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311719812

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Opaque Memories

By Isaiah Fields

Published by Publications Circulations LLC.

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All contents copyright (C) 2014 by Publications Circulations LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this document or the related files may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, companies and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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Chapter One

WHAT HAPPENED IN CANCUN?

It was all Camila had been asked since she and Javier returned from the city, only now it came from her mother. The answer, though, still hadn't gotten any easier.

What happened indeed? Camila thought. She had tried, for the hundredth time, to explain. Again, her mind failed her.

We keep hearing about something crazy -- the snakes...

What took place on that day could not be explained simply. Words eluded her. Even a week after they got back -- or fled Cancun, depending on one's perspective -- Camila could not bring herself to describe what had happened when they were there.

The day had begun innocently enough. She and Javier got into the Jeep and drove the forty miles to the city. Javier apologized, she accepted; and by the time they arrived in Cancun, the icy silence had melted into lukewarm awkwardness.

Things still weren't quite back to how they had been but it had been just a matter of time.

At first, things had gone well. Camila bought the things her mother and father had put on the list, ordered what she had to from the suppliers and bought mangoes with chili and salt for herself and Javier to snack on while they went to the beach. In all the time Javier had lived with the Fuenteses, he had never tried to go swimming and he didn't think he knew how to swim. Still, under Camila's gentle prodding, he agreed to let her buy him a cheap swimsuit -- a scandalously scanty and electric-blue Speedo knock-off -- so he could try to at least float on the water. Camila changed into her bikini and they entered the blue waters, giggling nervously and holding hands like any other teenage couple.

Camila eased Javier into a floating position when they reached waist-high water. And then the riptide came. A powerful current suddenly rose and swept them out to sea.

It seemed to have come from nowhere -- one minute they were floating in the calm blue waters, the next they were clinging to each other as the water churned around them and dragged them away from the shore.

It was all Camila could do to keep Javier's head above water! Javier had gone catatonic (from the shock, Camila supposed, in retrospect) as soon as they were in deep water. Camila wasn't worried about herself -- she knew what to do against a riptide. But swimming while pulling more than her own body in dead weight was almost impossible.

They were drifting fast, faster than she had thought was possible from a riptide. That just meant she had to get swimming. She shook Javier, trying to get him to snap out of it so that he could at least help her by floating.

He responded by getting yanked under the waves.

Camila panicked. She couldn't see him. She was a good swimmer but diving was a different story -- never mind diving in the open ocean! The whining buzz of the lifeguard's Jet Ski approached and she waved frantically. When it got near, the lifeguard tossed her the buoy and told her to hang on.

We can't leave now! she screamed. My boyfriend is-- She gestured in the water.

What? he asked.

He's down there! she sputtered. I don't know what happened! I was trying to get him to snap out of his shock, and he... he just sank!

The lifeguard spoke into his radio. She says her boyfriend sank, he said. I don't know. I can't see-- He broke off suddenly, staring into the distance.

Camila started to snap at him, "What are you