In a time of plenty or want, someone, a shaman perhaps, led a party up a mountain. In tow were three special guests: a teenage girl, who probably counted as an adult woman, and two young children. They'd been given special dispensation to chew coca, officially only for the elite.The three were dressed finely and the teenager had makeup to make her look even younger or more pleasing. The trio were plied with corn liquor to make them drowsy in the cold thin air and left in a cleft to die of exposure.
The mountain enveloped the three in a cold, airless embrace.
The remains of the two children are back in the lab getting studied, but the teen girl was judged to be of such transcendent quality that she was allowed to have visitors.
Only we look, she is remote, she is still given to the mountain. What do we see?
