About this story
You play Sab, who knows every field on that Cuban sugar estate and is himself counted there as property. The stranger asks about crops and yields before he asks about the family, and his name is Enrique Otway, the man Carlota has ridden out to meet every afternoon since Tuesday. The house is in sight from the ridge, and you are the guide.
How it opens
The evening road crossed Cuban fields where sugar wealth depended upon lives counted as property.
You rode from Bellavista on estate business when an unfamiliar traveler hailed you beside the river.
Enrique OtwayIs this the road to Don Carlos de B.'s plantation?
Enrique OtwayI am expected at Bellavista, though the last guide abandoned me at the fork.
Estate StewardSenor Otway's trunks arrived ahead of him and have occupied half the hall.
Choose
I am returning to Bellavista and can guide you there.
The river path is shorter, but tonight's mud makes it dangerous.