Article written by Magda Nadal , creative writer and participant in remote villages Fuencaliente 2022.

First part: the village

As soon as they called me to take care of this case of disappearance of a person in the remote town of Villarejo de Salvanés, I knew that I was faced with the most enigmatic and complicated case of my professional career.

While Watson was driving, I reviewed the profile of the suspects, trying to find a way to group them to be surrounding the culprit, or guilty.

When comparing his age, place of origin, formation and occupation, only one thought tormented me: what dark purpose had gathered in that remote place of the plateau to a group of such varied people? Could it be a secret brotherhood, or in other words, a sect? And if so, what kind? suicide? sexual? Suicide, but before that sexual?

We arrived at the town of Salvanés a Monday morning in which an frozen fog layer from the end of March covered the sun, we had to know the place of the events.

I gathered in the dining room of the house where they were staying since Friday, to all those who had shared the stay that weekend, were twelve more the missing person, who was a lady.

The majority of guests were residents in the Canary Islands, including the missing, so I separated this group from the rest, there were seven.

The others, five specifically, lived in the Iberian Peninsula, including the native of Villarejo: Mr. Gonzalo Fernández, a rich heir known and admired by his fellow citizens.

It could have done the groups according to other criteria, but it was more complicated, because there were three people who considered the organizers of this and other meetings (the priests of the organization, perhaps?), Were known to all and could be the main suspects : The charming Ms. Elsa R., a young businesswoman who looked very affected, her partner, Carlos J., who maintained despite the circumstances her jovial tone, and the disturbing Aristocrat, Gonzalo F., who seemed to refuse to accept what happened.

As they explained to me, most of the rest of the participants had met on Friday night, at the welcome dinner at the local restaurant known as Casa Pichi . I would interrogate the service of that restaurant later, around noon ...

When talking with each of the suspects about the places where they had moved during the weekend, I was surprised to see that they had not left the town, rather than to go for a walk around. They had an agenda full of activities for the two days, which left them a little time for improvisation: visit to the Cooperativa , with oil tasting, food, dinner with local wines tasting and, the next day, visit the sites of Cultural Interest of the Villa: The Tower of the Tribute and the House known as La Tercia. There were many places where to look for more clues, but to start it was better to focus on the house.

Second part: the house

The rooms and bathrooms of the house were distributed on two floors, so that five people slept in three rooms, down, and eight slept up. The missing was staying in an individual room, and nobody noticed, or heard, nothing on Saturday night, his bed was perfectly made on Sunday morning and his luggage was not there, as if no one had occupied that room.

Watson was in charge of reviewing the kitchen, and found that it was well supplied with alcohol, cheeses and other rich delicacies in the area. He informed me about a home torty tray that had caught his attention, and I told him that we would requisition to verify that the sweets would not have been used to drug, or poison, to the poor missing girl ...

Where had the disappearance been carried out? In the garden, in the bedroom ... in the library, perhaps?

When arguing with Watson on this issue, he seemed to have something very clear, and so he let me know:

- I would not like to seem presumptuous, Lord, you are the eminence of the deductive method, but I think that I also know how to apply it, and, in this case, I do not see very likely that the disappearance would take place in the library, if it allows me daring ...

- How is that Watson? Do you challenge me? Let us listen, then, your reasoning, since you are so sure to confirm it ...

- I think, whatever it happened to this girl before disappearing, she could not take place in the library, since there is no library in this house.

After this great deduction from Watson, we recover the interviews with the suspects ...

As they told me, on Saturday night there was a moment of projection of an audiovisual of content author apparently subversive and highly harmful to young minds, during which the lights went out, and it was when they turned them back on when they missed To the missing girl.

Third part: Without conclusions

Given the lack of incriminating indications of those present, I have not left anymore to confine them all in the house, until the culprit appears, which has not alarmed any of them, apparently they do not have labor, or family obligations URGENTS

If at the end of reading this story, someone, even anonymously, can add more information and/or details about the missing woman and her whereabouts, this pious person will be gratified with the equivalent of their weight in oil, way of proceeding usual among the locals of this remote corner of the plateau.

In Villarejo de Salvanés, April 3,?