Translation of Amorphous

«That was the question; she really didn´t know what was exactly that thing...».

Two girl friends were talking about school in front of the bus stop. At evening people crossed slowly the street, there were few cars, far whispers. The lanterns were turned on silently by the imminent coming time. The headlights of the cars also helped to get a better illumination of the street.

The chat about school, boyfriends and subjects was insignificant when one of the girls saw a very tall guy, who was talking on the phone while crossing the street. But, what really got her attention was not that good-looking guy, there was a strange shadow projected down his feet.

When that guy started to walk, at the same time there were two extra pair of legs following him. Both shadows seemed to be as just one. The girl had noticed that didn´t pay attention any more to her friend because she had glanced the second shadow at the floor where the guy was walking.

—Look that! —she said pointing the floor.

Her friend couldn´t see what she was pointing.

—I cannot see it, what is it? —answered curiously.

—Are you kidding me? —answered with astonishment. Her friend and other people surrounding them were no able to see it. 

When this guy finished crossing the street , that mysterious shadows got distorted into a darker, amorphous and solid matter as time passed.

—If you tell me what it is, maybe I can see it? —said her friend.

However, that was the question; she really didn´t know what was exactly that thing. How she was supposed to describe it? She saw it without blinking, suddenly some peaks emerged and twisted itself.  Apparently that amorphous matter was trying to imitate the outline of …

—The shape of a dog! —She thought, and the matter improved its shape.

It seemed like a medium dog sculpted in opaque glass; it had no defined features. Their extremities continuous growing, but they were still peaks and where there should have been eyes, nose and snout there were only hollows; it also found difficult to maintain that appearance. Every time it changed its form I could hear a kind of splashes followed by such a nauseating, penetrating sweet odor characteristic of the rotten stink.

That amorphous body followed its way in the opposite direction of the boy’s way and just when a car faced that animated thing... it released a soft howl that went all the way until the end of the street and slowly disintegrated into shadows, disappearing.

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