Just when he wanted to ask for clarification, the voice added:
“She is the water you drank!”
She didn’t understand and understood at the same time. A man lasts without air for three minutes, in a blizzard for three hours, and without water for only three days. He pulled the photo of him and Melina out of his pocket and stared at it with misty eyes. Everywhere he looked below him, dunes and dunes and dunes, high enough to prevent a safe landing. Just as he was thinking of abandoning, he saw the Messerschmitt make a wide turn to the east, as it was probably nearing its fuel limit. In the morning, he awoke just before sunrise and was astonished to see a desert fox peering curiously at him. He made a few quickening movements and set off. “Yes, I’d like you to fill it. Nice hallucination, Robert thought, but after an hour in which he had almost regained his strength he began to question himself.
