Lourdes

With the relentless noise of the car race, they reached the train station of Terontola, as God willed. All together, the real sick, the fakers, the pilgrims, and the volunteer staff poured into the station tavern, bumping and shoving each other, as if they had been traveling for days without ever stopping. In reality, the journey had lasted less than an hour. Forgetting the status that the uniform conferred upon her, Maria Angulema had the reckless idea to take a seat at a small table, where she eagerly devoured two ice pops, one with cola flavor and the other with mint; then she decided to escape the crowd in the hall by going to the station restroom, where she freed herself from the constraint of the cap and smoked a cigarette. Stuffed into a pinching uniform and adorned with a dreadful headpiece.