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stop the previous evening, with its impressive and deep feeling of well-being.

He slowly opened his eyes; he stretched like a feline, slowly and deliberately. He got up and walked out the door.

The Sun was mid-morning, while the structure was not very high; he was unable to determine the likely extension of the complex. He decided to walk about it, he had not gone far when he clearly heard the noise made by a body falling into water, immediately turned cautiously to the source of the sound, between some bushes, and he saw a cenote, with completely crystalline water.

All of a sudden, a young man emerged from the water, to breathe and once again plunged. Night Eagle was watching the stranger from his hiding place, which from time to time, pulled out a fish, skewered in a harpoon and introduced them in a basket, at the edge of the beautiful natural well.

Finally, during a dive of the fisherman, Night Eagle decided to come out from hiding and saw the diver disappear on one end of the cenote, where the water changed its color to a more intense blue, which indicated a deeper part of the cenote.

Shortly thereafter, he began seeing the diver figure appear. Again he had an enormous fish skewered in his harpoon. The man quickly moved as a submarine reflection, until reaching the surface and immediately taking a fresh breath of air.

When the diver noticed Night Eagle presence, he welcomed him with a broad smile and said good morning in the language he had learned from the teachers that received him in the complex of Uxmal, "The thrice built".

Without further comment, the diver invited Night Eagle to plunge into the cenote. Then the two boys

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