EPISODE II THE SALT COMPASS. INGLÉS ÓSCAR VALENTE Y LOS MAPAS IMPOSIBLES, #2

The compass arrived in a poorly sealed wooden box, inside an envelope addressed to the University of Madrid and bearing the return address of an antiquarian from Cádiz who had been dead for three weeks.Óscar found it among the backlog of September post. He had spent August in Toledo with Alonso, who had a habit of accumulating questions over the summer and releasing them all in August, when the heat made any other form of conversation impossible.
He returned to Madrid on the first of September with two notebooks full of notes and the certainty that he needed a week without talking about anything important.