Escalera Al Cielo Capitulo 1 [TOP]

Mateo, seventeen and restless, wanted to laugh. The village of Lucero had many legends—about conquistadors’ ghosts, weeping women, and a staircase that supposedly rose from the jungle floor and vanished into the clouds. He’d heard them all since he was a boy. But tonight was different. Tonight, his mother lay in a hospital bed three hundred miles away, her breath a shallow, mechanical rhythm. The doctors had used the word matter of hours .

Behind him, the first step had vanished.

“I don’t believe in stairways,” he said, but his voice cracked. escalera al cielo capitulo 1

Mateo spun. A boy stood three steps below him, though he hadn’t been there a moment ago. He was about Mateo’s age, but his eyes were old—ancient—and his clothes were woven from what looked like shredded clouds. He carried no lantern, but his skin gave off a soft blue light.

Mateo looked up at the infinite staircase, at the light pouring from the unseen top. “I need to save my mother.” Mateo, seventeen and restless, wanted to laugh

“Don’t listen to the echoes,” a new voice said.

He placed his foot on the obsidian step. But tonight was different

“One rule,” the boy said. “Don’t look back. And whatever you do, don’t step off the path.”

“Who are you?” Mateo whispered.