Aztec Odyssey by Jay C. LaBarge

Aztec Odyssey by Jay C. LaBarge

Author:Jay C. LaBarge [LaBarge, Jay C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LaBarge Enterprises
Published: 2020-12-15T22:00:00+00:00


Chapter 27 – June 28

It was early Monday morning, and they were only about an hour drive from Cuernavaca. Soba wanted to get there and register for her conference before noon, so she was up gathering wild edibles for a quick breakfast. No need to kill anything this morning, this would be a simple harvest meal.

Nick debated in his head whether or not to tell her what he found the prior night under the truck, but ultimately decided not to, or at least not yet. No sense in worrying her until he knew more.

Nanook was playfully following Soba around, nipping at her heels, looking for a little attention. He proudly dropped the coati’s skull at her feet and backed off and crouched down, the universal sign for wanting to play. Viscera hung where the neck had been, and the one unblinking eye looked back up at her. Soba deftly put her toe under the other empty socket, flicked it up in the air and in one smooth motion caught the skull and then sent it spinning wildly into the distance.

“Funny,” Nick remarked to Soba as he shook his head in bewilderment. “You sure don’t throw like the girls I knew back home.”

In a bound Nanook was off after the crazily twirling skull, his heavy feet kicking up dust and thumping on the dry stream bed of the arroyo. Nick smiled to himself as he watched, thinking how idyllic the scene was, except it was an oversized white wolf instead of a dog, and a desiccated skull instead of a ball. Oh well, when in Rome.

Nick carefully hid the still blinking device in back of the front seat of his pickup, a nascent plan evolving in the background of his mind. If someone was tracking him, better to not let them know he was on to them. The little voice in the back of his head had been right all along, he would do well to heed it in the future, for all their sakes.

On the quick ride to the convention center in Cuernavaca, Soba gave Nick the background on why she was so excited to attend this First Nations Tribal Council gathering.

“Not only will there be representatives of tribes from the states, but also from Canada, Mexico and Central America, and right on down through South America. There have been smaller gatherings over time, but I am so excited to have so many different peoples together at once!”

Nick could feel the passion in her voice and couldn’t help but get caught up in her enthusiasm.

“So if this all goes well, if you as a group accomplish what you set out to, what exactly would that be?” Nick inquired.

Soba excitedly patted his leg, as she obviously wanted to rehearse this pitch on someone.

“Well, we can share best practices, build on what works, and enable one another. And that will take a common agenda, something we have struggled with. We need to take small steps first, but we all suffer from the legacies of colonial division.



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