Total Consciousness

Chapter-1: The Killing ….

     Luz glanced up at the mountain peak and grinned with a disconcerting look. He stopped whistling and slowed his steps some more. His thoughts hammered around in his mind, trying to chisel away at his odd feelings and memories.

     Nothing emerged from his sculpted thinking. Instead, he looked up and inhaled three quick breaths and resumed his whistling.

     Several blinks later, Luz added a humming tune in between his fluttering exhales as he lowered his gaze and returned to his original walking pace. His steady speed did not last long. Step after step, he walked faster as he aimed with urgency for the top of the mountain.

     1821 is different, Luz thought, my fight in Palomas will be different from all the other years. This one, this is it, this is my year. He gazed over his shoulder, and beyond his assistant, and scanned the night sky. A dream of the future played out in his heart, and he drifted on his thoughts of victory, careful not to stumble.

     A trip of warm waves shivered up his legs and up through his heart. The sudden sensation startled Luz, causing him to hold his breath for a few seconds. He slowed his steps once again and tilted his bone white gambler hat back. How strange, he thought as he failed to hold back a tiny honest smile. A new wonderment grew in his mind. Would you look at that? He narrowed his eyes and continued to expand his senses all around him.

     Cana trailed his master in smooth soundless steps. He sniffed and analyzed the air, and glanced between Luz and the struggle to the east. His canary yellow eyes brightened as he looked deeper through the Chihuahua woods. The increase in power from his gaze left the mountain creatures feeling naked and breathless, trapped within a scolding grip of fire.

     Luz slammed to a stop mid stride, holding still in a very peculiar stance. He formed an isosceles triangle with his legs, while his arms extended mid swing—one forward and one backward.

     The abrupt pose raised the thick fur on Cana’s back. He barked twice. No response. He rushed in close and examined his master.

     All seemed in order with Luz: tall, muscular, short black wavy hair, dressed in coal black pants, and wearing a dark-green vicuña coat that reached mid-thigh. And, beyond his usual scent of lilacs, Luz smelled of citrus and cedar, and of midnight past eternity.  

     Cana held his jaws open and licked his fangs with dissatisfaction. He continued his inspection with finer detail, glancing over his master’s pearl white boots, his white collared shirt and his bone white gambler hat. Better. All appeared normal. All smelled in proper place.

     Cana sighed and relaxed a bit. He scrunched his nose up twice and stretched his jaw muscles, opening his mouth wide and wider still. He waited.

     Luz moved slowly as though under water, bringing his feet and arms together. He pressed out his mustache with deliberate fingertips and tried not to show too much excitement.

     “What a curious thing.” Luz eased his heart into a gentle rhythm. “Have you noticed the night sky to the east, jovencito?”

     Cana barked and turned his curiosity to the eastern sky. It all seemed normal, nothing out of place. He side glanced back at his master and chomped at the air twice, and squinted with a curious doubt. Still, his nose wiggled with interest a few times more. The scent from the eastern air urged him to check once more.

     This time Cana noticed the difference after a deeper sniff of the midnight Chihuahua air. The stars did not blink. The crescent moon glowed with a much dimmer light than normal. And there, beneath the copper red moon slice, a woman wailed on the damp earth, fading away in misery.

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