Last talk

But things did not stop there. I met with Ariadna for the last time. It's that visit of hers to Zothmar that I previously reported about. She had called to tell me about the outcome of her discussions with Vadim - and I, as you noticed, had a whole novel of plots and fabrics that I kept inside me. I remember saying to him on the phone:

- I feel like I'm going insane!

She answered me very calmly:

- Let me come to Zothmar to talk, but please don't involve your people.

Which, by the way, I was also feeling. I didn't feel like sharing with anyone and I'm sorry for the moment I did.

He met us at the bus station after being two or three hours late. She had been forgotten in the Roman City when stopping at a gas station.

I entered the nearest restaurant, very dubious by the way. I didn't know how to start, how to broach the subject without sounding crazy. I started with the end, with going out to that club. I told her a little about the fact that I had interacted with Rita's ex-boyfriend, but I forgot to mention that I knew him from classes. I was extremely brief. Not being close friends, the discussion wasn't relaxed, with jokes or jokes either. We were both tense. Actually, more me. I don't know if I succeeded, or at least I managed to show him the way he looked at me and Luca. I wanted to tell her mostly about the discussions between the participants, but hearing me talk about a male person, Ariadna rolled her eyes.

Much later I realized that she had understood something else entirely.

I've changed location (sounds familiar, right? Again? you'll wonder, as I did: why do they keep changing locations?).

Before visiting Vadim at his fortress, as was decided along the way, he made that confession to me as if he were with that imaginary doctor. The one who disproved this statement was Iliana, who I had no doubt was hiding something from me. Now it's clear to me that something else was going on. If you still remember, a few posts down, what I said about the insinuations of El Chupacabra, as we jokedly nicknamed Daniel, Deianira and Rita... now you will understand more...

Vadim was at the theater, as he would find out, calling the intercom in vain. He received the answer through a message, after insisting on the phone.

On the way, among other things, she opened the discussion about her ex-boyfriend. Actually, her ex-boyfriends.