CHAPTER 8Etalpalli had survived yet another bad situation and acknowledged that it was lucky that Meztli had followed his clues and had backed him up about the gold mine. He realised that Giraldo was no fool but it appeared that he had accepted that there was gold mine. Now all he had to do was to play out the deception until he had a chance to escape. Time wasn't on his side for he knew that this trail just led back towards the temple and local villages. Once close, the capitán would realise they had really just travelled in a gigantic circle and his life would be over and even worse. Once in the overworld, judgement day would send him to the lowest realm of eternal damnation. This was worse than death itself.
The two extra swing bridge crossings he made were scary, especially with that
