Una mujer gritó a lo lejos por ayuda, su marido había caído al suelo súbitamente. Un minuto mas tarde los gritos pidiendo auxilio se escuchaban de todas direcciones. Los paramédicos no se daban abasto. Para cuando me di cuenta, Marlene, Claudia, Carlos y Enrique estaba en el suelo. No se les veía como si estuvieran muertos, mas bien, como si estuvieran dormidos.
El sol quemaba mas que de costumbre, con la boca demasiado reseca como para gritar por ayuda, corrí hasta el primer puesto de auxilio, con cada trago que le daba al agua, mi sed parecía incrementarse. Entonces se acercó a mi un anciano con una taza en la mano.
-Tal vez debería tratar de tomar café caliente para quitarse la sed-
-¿Café caliente? pero si hace bastante calor, ¿Cómo cree usted que el café va a quitarme la sed?-
-Es una mezcla especial que me daba mi abuelo, debería probarlo-
Tomé una taza grande para servirme de la mezcla que me ofrecía, se trataba de café sin azúcar y sin leche, con algo que parecía algún tipo de aceite. Su sabor y aroma eras bastante fuertes, pero sospeche que tenía algo mas que no me había dicho porque apenas lo tomé y me pareció ver que una gran cantidad de gente empezaba a subir el cerro, todos uniformados y a una gran velocidad.
-Gracias, buen hombre, pero me puede decir que tiene el café, me parece que estoy sufriendo de alucinaciones-
-Es solo café express concentrado con aceite de romero y no esta usted viendo alucinaciones, la ayuda ya viene en camino-
A mi alrededor la gente empezó a a caer al suelo, uno a uno caían dormidos mientras el anciano no dejaba de reírse. Luego empecé a marearme, un intenso dolor en la parte superior de la cabeza me hizo inclinarme, empecé a vomitar incontrolablemente, caminé unos pasos y finalmente caí al suelo...
A woman screamed in the distance for help, her husband had suddenly fallen to the ground. A minute later cries for help could be heard from all directions. The paramedics couldn't cope. By the time I realized it, Marlene, Claudia, Carlos and Enrique were on the floor. They did not look as if they were dead, rather, as if they were asleep.
The sun was hotter than usual, with my mouth too dry to scream for help, I ran to the first aid station, with each drink I gave the water, my thirst seemed to increase. Then an old man approached me with a cup in his hand.
-Maybe you should try to drink hot coffee to quench your thirst-
-Hot coffee? but if it's quite hot, how do you think coffee is going to quench my thirst?
-It's a special mixture that my grandfather gave me, you should try it-
I took a large cup to help myself to the mixture that he offered me, it was coffee without sugar and without milk, with something that seemed like some kind of oil. Its flavor and aroma were quite strong, but I suspected that it had something else that he hadn't told me because I barely took it and I thought I saw that a large number of people began to climb the hill, all in uniform and at great speed.
-Thank you, good man, but can you tell me what you have in the coffee, it seems to me that I am suffering from hallucinations-
-It's just concentrated espresso with rosemary oil and you're not seeing hallucinations, help is on the way-
Around me people began to fall to the ground, one by one they fell asleep while the old man did not stop laughing. Then I started to get dizzy, an intense pain on the top of my head made me bend over, I started vomiting uncontrollably, I walked a few steps and finally fell to the ground...
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