He touches his ear to make sure he’s awake. Hell is here and he is the devil, but not everything can be destruction. He keeps walking and finds the Peugeot with Jaume and Xavi inside, two boys a bit younger than him, whom he’d met at some party in town.
“What are you two doing here?” he asks.
“Us?” says Jaume. “We’re where we’re supposed to be. And you, evil notary?”
He doesn’t want to be that reincarnation. The water of the lake has to rise again, it has to drown the two boys, snuff out all the fires; or else it will all be hell.