- The narrator rides through the super-hot desert with a muleteer and finds out that his guide just happens to be Pedro Páramo's son, too. This Pedro guy really got around.
- There is a quick, italicized section, which is the narrator's mother's voice, describing her nostalgic memories of Comala.
- However, the dusty, hot place doesn't exactly match her description.
- In fact, the town looks deserted, like a ghost town.
- The muleteer tells the narrator that actually no one lives in Comala anymore, and that Pedro Páramo, their father, died years ago. Oops.