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Mateo looked up at the infinite staircase, at the light pouring from the unseen top. “I need to save my mother.”

Mateo, seventeen and restless, wanted to laugh. The village of Lucero had many legends—about conquistadors’ ghosts, weeping women, and a staircase that supposedly rose from the jungle floor and vanished into the clouds. He’d heard them all since he was a boy. But tonight was different. Tonight, his mother lay in a hospital bed three hundred miles away, her breath a shallow, mechanical rhythm. The doctors had used the word matter of hours . escalera al cielo capitulo 1

“I don’t believe in stairways,” he said, but his voice cracked. Mateo looked up at the infinite staircase, at