The Border by Don Winslow
Author:Don Winslow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-02-26T05:00:00+00:00
For the first time in his life, the boy is alone.
Nico rides the train alone, keeps to himself, trusts no one, speaks little, and when he does, it’s to ask about Flor. When he gets off the train to look for food, he asks about her. She’s not at the first stop or the next. He asks about her at the shelters, the clinics. He has no photo of her, he can only describe her, but no one has seen her, or at least they’re not saying.
He gets back on the train and rides north.
Lonely, sad, afraid.
He makes no friends, doesn’t try, because he can’t trust anyone and besides, friends just disappear—in a flash of lightning or on a train fading into the distance.
Finally, the Beast stops.
Nico knows that he’s in Reynosa, but little more than that. Paola had told him about a shelter where he could spend the night before trying to cross the river, and he finds his way to the Casa del Migrante, run by the priests.
There he gets a simple meal and news about Flor.
She was arrested, a woman tells him. Yes, a little girl matching that description was taken away by the Reynosa Police just by the train.
“You saw this?” Nico asks.
“I saw,” the woman says.
“What do they do with them?” Nico asks. “The people they arrest?”
The people who have no money to pay bribes.
“Send them back,” the woman says.
So Flor is on El Bus de Lágrimas, heading all the way back to Guatemala City and El Basurero.
At least she’s alive, Nico thinks, at least she’s safe.
He falls asleep on the concrete floor.
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