2 The Special Visit

It was 10 o 'clock in the morning, everything seemed to be calm and outside there was a sky filled with a radiant sun in all its splendor. Zenda and the rest of the children were having breakfast in the large, high dining room of the orphanage. A milk with fresh cocoa and some toasts with different sweets that adorned the table, especially there was one that was the favorite of most, the homemade blueberry jam echa por marga, the main cook of the place who, without ever having taken cooking classes, the theme of flavors and textures had them more than dominated, something that loved children and sisters.

When zenda is about to serve one of the sweet toasts, she feels a sharp, sharp pain in her right wrist, it seemed as if it were the sting of a poisonous insect, although there was no strange anomaly other than a small red spot. One of the sisters, seeing zenda's expression of subtle pain, checks her arm, it actually looks like a sting, so I take her to the bathroom to check her mark better. When they enter the bathroom, her sister asks when she was bitten by an insect, but zenda does not know when she assumed it was during the night, while she and the rest were sleeping. After checking the bite, her sister noticed something.

"A burn?" But how could I have burned myself in my sleep? The sister, without a reasonable explanation in her mind thought that maybe it was some child's joke, one of very bad taste by the way, although she quickly discarded that possibility because there was no child who was able to do that, mainly because she would not have to cause it. The sister carefully applied a small cloth of alcohol to disinfect the wound, and then covered it with a couple of bandages, in this way she would be able to stop it from expanding on the skin.

It had already been 1 hour since breakfast, most children were in their respective rooms, some playing, others reading, even some escaped to the playground, zenda however was in the library, looking for different types of spider bites that will cause burns and a lot of burning at times. However, as was to be expected, she found none that resembled what she had.

Finding no use looking how surjio what he had on his wrist began to play board games with other children, his favorite, ludo, very competitive but worth every second spent on it. They were already playing 10 minutes ago, zenda had 1 chip in the center and two more approaching, Clara, one of the girls with whom she got along best, was losing, by far, so far that she did not even have chips since all had eaten zenda and mati, another of the children with whom zenda had more relationship. It is almost the end of the game when suddenly one of the sisters calls everyone to the living room, the intrigued children are almost running, when zenda arrives attentive to what she says the mother listens as she says: in an hour a special visit will come from far away, she will come to adopta child!

At that moment all the children are thrilled up to their feet and run off to put on the best clothes they have, and of course there was no lack of the small perfume that everyone had and that never failed in special moments, Zenda did not think she missed the opportunity so she came out as fast as she could and was the first to go to the bathroom, so this way she would have time to get dressed well.

An hour later:

The lady arrives at the place and after talking to one of the sisters decides to go in to see the children. All the nervous but excited children said hello to the lady, but zenda slipped away a good day! , zenda realizing she was the only one to say this felt a little embarrassed but the visitor turned to her and asked her - what's your name girl? - to what zenda said - amm my name is ze-zenda - how old are you? - I have 10 ma 'am, she said nervously,- oh, you don't need to call me ma 'am, you can call me mirtha, mirtha sallow, that's my real name. After this a sister said to each child introduce himself, of course, all but zenda who had already done it. After 10 minutes the lady and two sisters retired to a corner to decide who was going to adopt, this was very strange to zenda, it seemed as if it was a jury to decide who was best presentable and who had a more pleasant personality, oh at least that's how she saw it.

While waiting to find out who they would choose, all the children went to play in the playground with three sisters. While everyone was playing in las amacas, slides and ups and downs zenda takes a moment to ask him about the sting and tells him about the nightmare he had. -last night I dreamed something very strange, I don't know if you know what it could mean but it was very frightening - he said thinking about how frightening it looked.

After telling her the dream, her sister, with a surprised face, tells her - "it's normal to have nightmares although... It is strange how the door of the dream burned as you describe it and then you wake up with a burn too, capable was a sign that god sent you, but you would not know how to interpret it, that you must do. Zenda confusing says thanks and retires to play with the rest. While on the subibajas, one of the children screams - a snake, a snake! - kill it, matalaa!! The sisters trying to calm the situation grab the children and drive them away from where the snake was. When zenda saw her she could not believe it, she looked exactly like the one who twisted in her dream around the door, frightened by this she runs out as soon as she can and hides inside the building, and thought of never going outside again, that dark greenish thing had turned into her greatest fear.

After 10 minutes

All the children were back outside, the snakes had managed to be away, however zenda held on to one of the sisters, did not want to risk being bitten by one of those children. Suddenly a sister comes out with mirtha to the yard, she had already decided who she wanted to adopt, at that moment zenda can not think of anything else but what happened around that door, the snakes and their half burn half bite, she hears that call, zenda not knowing what to ask if they talk to her, to what she says to lady - of course you, is there another zenda in this orphanage that I do not know? , zenda more than relieved and grateful goes and embraces her very strongly. After picking up his things and getting them stuck in the car he says hello to all the children and sisters but doesn't leave without first saying hello to those who were his greatest friends, mati and Clara, - I'll miss you! - I am sure you will not want to go back to this orphanage but maybe one day I will visit you, I will also miss you, or rather, we will miss you.

Before getting into the car she decides to check her little wound, zenda, scared and impressed, looks at her after removing all the layers of bandages she had, now the wound had a peculiar shape, quite precise that even seemed to have been drawn by someone else, it had symmetry, and some strange lines that formed a symbol, something that left her. So, so that no one would notice, she covered her back with the bandages she had and went towards the car in which she could possibly travel everywhere, an old rocketman mini in water green color, a color that fascinated him and that matched the short lime-green dress that the lady was wearing, along with those big black glasses that covered her eyes.

Zenda, with her eyes half tearful after saying goodbye to her friends and other locals, gets into the car and asks mirtha where her destination is, to which she says, "get ready because it's far where we're going, next stop, the blue swamp."

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