Cacé A Un NAHUAL Que Comía Personas Historias De Terror - REDE

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The winged creature. My name is
Isan. I had plenty of time not

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working as a teacher until I was
offered to work in a school that was

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in a little town practically hidden in
the middle of the jungle. Not many

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people would be willing to leave their
lives completely to go to a place in

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the middle of nowhere, where they
don' t know anyone and most likely

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won' t last long. But
I wasn' t like other people.

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Not only was it a safe job, but I would fulfill my dream of

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becoming independent, even if this was
so far away. At the same time

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I thought that could not be so
bad. On my first night there something

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very strange happened. I used to
be a person who slept until very late

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my sleep hours were always messy,
but by that point in my life I

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had gotten used to it. It
was three o' clock in the morning

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and I was still awake. As
I read, I could see that everything

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around me was in a rather disturbing
silence. Not only was I used to

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the city where you always hear cars
and all kinds of noises, but at

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that time there was no sound at
all, I couldn' t even hear

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the classic sounds of insects like crickets
or wind. I blew away from fearing

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myself, it was really comforting.
I thought there was no better room to

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read, but that changed abruptly when
I heard something very heavy landing on the

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roof of my house, which,
being sheeting, made the noise a lot

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louder. It seemed as if a
bird had landed on my roof, but

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the dimensions it should have to cause
such a noise were completely impossible to believe.

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I didn' t understand what was
happening to me. I could hear

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him walking down the roof. He
almost seemed to try to make as much

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noise as possible. That' s
when I got out of bed and decided

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to see what was going on.
I took a broom and hit the roof

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twice, which caused what was on
my roof to fly. About five minutes

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passed without any more listening. This
calmed me thinking that maybe the fact that

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the roof was filmed increased the sound
and could be a simple bird of normal

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size, perhaps just a little bigger
than usual. As I tried to calm

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down, I decided to go to
the kitchen for some water while I was

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drinking I started to feel watched.
It was a pretty strong feeling and I

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couldn' t ignore it. That' s when I looked out the window

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facing the street and I could see
a person, a man, to be

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more accurate, was a considerable distance
away, but still I could see that

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his gaze was quite penetrating and he
seemed somewhat angry as he watched me all

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that was quite strange, not only
because he was the only person in miles

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around that he was on the street
at three in the morning, but because

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he seemed almost as if he was
recriminating something. I looked away a little

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as his gaze was really intense.
When I wanted to look again to see

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what I was doing, I realized
that the man was no longer there.

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I looked everywhere, but I didn' t see him anywhere. It was

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as if he had just vanished.
I thought about it for a moment,

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but after half an hour I decided
to go back to bed and think a

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lot about it, I ended up
falling asleep. I remember that first day

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perfectly. Many arrived quite early and
anxious. We started by introducing ourselves and

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doing a few activities more than anything
to assess their level of education. It

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was a big surprise to know that
many of them, even though they were

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old enough to be in sixth grade, didn' t really know how to

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read or write. Still, I
was trying to give my best, always

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planning interesting activities so that at least
they would learn a little bit. That

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seemed to work for a while,
but after a month in that place,

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I began to notice some things that
I thought were done out of bad habit,

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but the longer I spent in that
place, the more I realized that

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something strange was happening there. To
begin with, I could see that all

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people without exception were locked in their
homes before nightfall. That warning was given

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to me when I arrived in the
room, which I was given to stay

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in during my stay in that place
had a thick chain, which I was

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told to put before sleep and that
no matter what I heard, I should

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not go out even if they knocked
on the door. That missed me at

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first, but I came from the
city, a place where everything is more

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insecure and I thought that might be
the reason. It could be as simple

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as they wanted to steal from me, or, as some people disagreed with

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having a teacher in the village,
these well might try to hurt me and

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so it was that warning. As
time passed I realized that this warning was

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not only for me, but that
all the inhabitants seemed to follow it to

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the letter. I had heard several
things about a bird, but I had

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never seriously asked what they meant at
first. I thought they meant a kind

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of legend that all villages usually have
about witches, which took the form of

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birds rather than owls. Those stories
always made me something silly and fanciful.

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Still, I was intrigued by some
behaviors people had in the village. As

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I said before, that' s
how I tried to get more answers,

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I decided to take advantage of my
classes. I knew the kids in my

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class were very interested in the paranormal
theme and horror stories. Apparently, in

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that town there were many that parents
told their children and had even seen more

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than one occasion as the children gathered
to tell their own stories, which seemed

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to me a good tool to encourage
them to read and write more as an

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activity of that day, I told
them that they could write a story of

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terror and then, when they had
finished, those who wanted to go to

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the front of the class to read
it. I could immediately notice that that

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really seemed to work out, as
for the first time I could see how

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all the children were excited by the
fact of doing some duty and for the

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next half hour all the children stayed
writing when at last they all ended up.

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Most of them were pretty basic stories
about how their grandparents faced fireballs or

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how they also told about how they
had fought with some creature, which they

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claimed was the devil. I'
d heard that kind of story before,

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though not from such a direct source. The children were passing one by one

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and I was proud that my idea
would have been a success in encouraging children

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to read and write. I was
not making any progress with my search for

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answers regarding the strange behavior of the
inhabitants of the village. Near the end,

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a child passed across the street.
This kid was called Ikal. The

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story he went on to tell started
everything he lived through. While reading his

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notebook, I realized that the story
had not been told to him. Rather,

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it was something he himself had lived
through. That' s why it

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caught my attention. From the beginning, he said that he had a younger

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brother who was taken by the bird. As soon as ical said those words,

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I could notice that not only did
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he caught everyone' s attention there, as the silence became total to pay

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full attention to the story of this
child. He began to tell how his

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brother and he used to be sent
by his father to check the irrigations of

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the harvest. He said that he
had been sent alone, but he was

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very afraid, so his brother decided
to accompany him. That day they did

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what their father had commanded them to
do and were walking back home. He

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said that on that day everything seemed
quite different from others, because, unlike

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what was always heard in the surroundings, like birds or other insects, even

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the wind blowing, it was not
heard that night, which made both of

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them quite nervous neither one said anything. He held his little brother' s

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hand and walked faster and faster trying
to make the journey shorter. They saw

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no one as they walked down the
street and that was an extra reason to

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want to rush home. A little
before arriving, they heard something that seemed

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to be like the sound of birds
flying, only that sound seemed to be

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amplified as if a very large bird
were in mid- flight. At first.

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They didn' t even bother to
look for the origin of the sound.

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They were completely determined to get home. The more they walked, the

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louder that sound became and it was
evident that he was approaching them who turned

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to see what it was about and
that was when they first saw him.

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Then he went on to say it
was very dark. Remember it was a

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very big bird. This one even
said it was bigger than a jaguar.

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At the same time as he recounted
how in the dark, he could see

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that the head was very similar to
the head of a rooster. His wings

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were much larger and his body was
more like a dog' s. I

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could hear one whispering, which said
it was true, as some relative had

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also run into her, which seemed
a little strange to me. I couldn

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' t believe an animal like the
one the little ical described existed. The

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boy continued his story by saying that
they were both very frightened to see that

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thing and began to run as it
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' t long before they got home, so they chose to run towards her

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instead of looking for a place to
hide. That was a big mistake.

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That thing was very fast and in
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She came down and took ical'
s brother by one arm When the boy

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said the latter, it seemed almost
as if it hurt a little to tell.

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He wanted to place much emphasis on
how he sustained everything he could,

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even that thing lifted him out of
the ground a little too, but finally

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he didn' t have enough strength
to continue holding him and ended up letting

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go of him he told how the
creature raised him as if his brother didn

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' t weigh absolutely anything and flew
very naturally. He could hear his brother

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screaming as that thing moved away.
He also mentioned in his story that he

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ran to tell his father, but
it was of no use, as when

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he left there was no trace of
the bird or even any hint of his

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brother. He also said that they
looked for him for a long time,

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but in reality it is that once
that thing decides to take someone, this

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one is never seen again and in
that they all seemed to agree. When

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the boy returned to his place,
I had to think everything I had heard.

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A couple of minutes I didn'
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and I even thought everyone there was
agreeing to try and play a joke

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on me. But no child there
seemed to laugh that the children were telling

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the truth or at least what they
believed to be true. Two more children

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came across the street to tell their
stories. I didn' t even pay

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attention to the latter, as my
mind was just going through their story.

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The class came to an end and
all the children left the classroom. For

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my part, I stopped Ikal and
before he left, I questioned him if

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his story had really happened or if
he had invented it only for the class.

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The question seemed to even almost offend
him. He told me that he

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hadn' t invented anything, that
he would never play with his brother'

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s name. That way, I
wanted to ask him more questions, but

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how he looked pretty upset about my
first question. I' m done leaving

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the subject aside. As I walked
through the village in the direction of the

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only store, I decided to ask
the seller if he knew anything about it.

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He was a very friendly person who
all my time in that town had

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done very well with me. I
came in normal and asked for the items

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I wanted. That day I didn' t know how to bring up the

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subject of conversation about that story of
the bird that kidnapped a child. And

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finally, when I realized that there
was no way to ask about the existence

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or at least some story about that
bird without looking like a madman, I

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started the topic with the question saying
maybe he knew what had happened with the

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brother of ical Immediately after I said
that, the man answered me that yes

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and that there was not much talk
about it, since the mother of the

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child did not like that people touched
on the subject. I asked him if

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he knew exactly what had happened,
because what the boy had told me really

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seemed unbelievable and I, seriously,
wanted to know what had happened and why

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the child told him that his brother
had been taken by a half- gay

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bird half- dog or whatever this
child described in his story. The man

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answered me without even taking into account
the matter that had been taken away by

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the bird to what the man told
me that there were things that we should

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simply leave as they were and that
sometimes it was better to live in ignorance

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than to try to understand what was
going on. I didn' t agree

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with that idea. All that seemed
strange to me, not to mention that

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I really wanted to know what was
supposed to have kidnapped a child. I

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think I asked three rather strong questions, followed by questions to which the man

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was unwilling to answer. None of
the inhabitants used to mention or speak of

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the bird out loud much less in
broad daylight, as it was believed that

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the bird used to attack whoever spoke
about it. Those words seemed even more

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ridiculous to me, as an animal
could not know when it was spoken of

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or not. The man seemed quite
sure of his words, but he also

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saw me curious enough to tell me
that yes, seriously or not I could

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go to my room, where I
stayed at night to tell me a little

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more, but that if I went
around asking those questions to the inhabitants,

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then I was going to cause nobody
to love me. There. I accepted

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his proposal, and that same night
I waited for him in my home with

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a couple of beers and some snacks. As I began to eat, he

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questioned whether I knew what a hua
was. I immediately said yes, to

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what he told me then I had
exactly the answer to my question. I

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proceeded to tell him that I knew
he was a gual, but that the

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Nahuales didn' t really exist and
that he should know. But he told

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me that he had a pretty arrogant
mind about things that can happen or not.

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Then, when he told me that
the Nahuales existed and were as real

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as the two of us and that
for evidence enough was the bird, which

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they did not know exactly where it
came from. Some said he was a

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sorcerer who died and had exchanged or
made a covenant to return in such a

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dreadful way. Others thought he was
actually a man from a neighboring village who

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was able to transform himself to be
able to steal children in a simple way.

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He told me he ran into that
thing. He once gave me a

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little more details about what that child
had told me in the classroom. This

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one told me he seemed to have
six legs in total. He also told

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me that when the first sightings began, not many people actually believed in that

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creature, as if someone said it
sounds pretty amazing. That was the main

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reason why people did not take the
appearance of it seriously. Very soon,

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the children began to disappear, as
did some farm animals. In spite of

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all that, people wanted to assume
him as people of bad life who tried

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to scare them so that they would
not go out at night. But soon

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sightings of that thing became more and
more frequent. The time when Ical'

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s brother was taken, which I
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Fernando, had been the first time
a child had survived his attack that was

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enough for most people to believe in
the existence of that thing and begin to

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take proper precautions. He told me
it was the reason why everyone was locked

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up at a certain time. The
man also told me how based on all

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that, the people began to say
certain superstitions, which actually had nothing to

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do with the creature, but whatever
they could do to feel a little safer,

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then they did. One of them
was not to talk about this being

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who claimed that, if he did, he would appear and you would be

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next. Once the man stopped telling
everything he knew, I was completely surprised.

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I couldn' t believe adult people
could believe those things. I thought

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what they had seen right might be
some animal, like an eagle or something.

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I know many will tell me that
in that place. It was not

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common for eagles to be so large. But even though I was very aware

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of that, it made it much
easier for me to believe that somehow one

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would have ended up in that place. Before I thought that the cause of

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all that was a creature. Like
a hua, the man told me that

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he used to be quite septic at
first, too. After all, he

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had already seen him face to face, so he was completely convinced of it,

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but I, who had never seen
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When the man left my house,
I stayed almost all night thinking about what

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he had told me. I couldn' t believe that it was a supernatural

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creature. I wanted everything to have
a more logical explanation. Trying to get

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answers by my own hand, I
decided I might as well marry that bird.

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After all, if the stories were
true and he managed to kill that

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thing, I think he would do
the people a favor, plus he was

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pretty convinced that it was just a
simple bird. My initial plan was to

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do it completely. I only had
a little experience marrying my father, being

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very young, had taught me how
to hunt, as it was an activity

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that I really enjoyed. I thought
I knew enough to catch that thing.

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After all, my father had always
said that I had a very good aim

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and believed that it was the only
thing I needed in that town. It

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was a little hard for me to
get a gun and I ended up getting

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a couple of rifles with the father
of one of my students. I didn

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' t tell him what exactly he
wanted them for. Part of me felt

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that I had to keep the secret
of hunting that thing on my own,

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so that no one would try to
stop me for fear of making things worse.

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The first time I planned to marry
the creature, I decided it would

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be a Friday, as I expected
the worst scenario. I could get a

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little hurt by that thing, so
I' d have at least two days

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for my wounds to heal. In
this way I would not worry and avoid

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some uncomfortable questions. The truth.
While I was waiting to see that bird,

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I found it quite pleasant to spend
the night outside my house, in

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a place so full of nature and
far from virtually any sign of civilization.

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I felt relaxed and enjoyed being there. I didn' t know if I

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was in the right place, because
apparently that thing was flying over any place

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in the village, but I had
chosen that place because it was the place

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the children pointed to as the home
of that creature was almost one in the

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morning and I was drinking some coffee
from the thermos. As I thought about

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how foolish I was trying to find
a half- gay winged creature half-

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dog with many legs, I thought
that maybe all that was just a joke

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that people were saying so that the
kids wouldn' t go out at night

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and behave themselves. While I was
thinking about all that, something caught my

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attention was a rather peculiar sound,
very similar to that of flying birds,

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but with the characteristic that it was
very strong, as if hundreds of birds

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flew at the same time and in
a synchronized manner. I looked straight into

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the sky trying to see the bird
that caused that dream. I thought it

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had to be huge so it could
be heard that way. As I watched

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the sky I could see nothing,
I walked a little further into the forest

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thinking I could see if I would
climb some tree and light up with my

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flashlight. I must admit, I
was a little nervous about it at the

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time. While I understood that it
was a very large bird, I could

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not imagine how large it should be. What I had heard gave the impression

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that I was much larger than an
adult, perhaps even much larger. There

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was a part of me that asked
me to come back and forget the whole

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thing. Another sound caught my attention
immediately and was the crackling of a branch.

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It was like something really heavy was
on her. I lit up with

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my flashlight until the light lit the
top of that tree and what I saw

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was pretty scary. On that branch
was what seemed to be a bird,

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but the more I saw it,
the more I knew it could not be

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a bird. He was huge,
even bigger than I could see his wings

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collected behind his back, which were
also immense. I saw four legs.

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The lower legs were exactly the same
as those of a common bird, only

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very large, but the hind legs
were more like those of a jaguar.

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I know exactly how this sounds and
I know that many will be thinking that

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my description makes no sense. I' m just telling you what I saw

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that day. The head was one
of the most grotesque things I' ve

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ever seen, as it was completely
at odds with the rest of the creature

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' s body. It was almost
as if someone had taken the head of

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a rooster and roughly sewed it to
the body in question. While the head

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was proportional to the body, it
did not make him feel part of it.

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Rather, no part seemed to be
entirely of a single animal. It

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was as if someone had joined different
parts of animals. It was a terrible

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thing. The creature' s eyes
sat upon me, which was rather frightening,

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more because, like me, it
was completely still. At one point

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I came to think that it might
be a statue or maybe a doll,

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as I really couldn' t even
tell if I was breathing. He was

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just there staring at me. The
doubts that it was real were completely dispelled,

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as as soon as I tried to
step back, I realized that I

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was only still because I was still
and as soon as I decided to move,

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this thing was completely ready to jump
on me. It really scared me.

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I stood still for about five minutes
thinking about what to do. I

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knew I couldn' t stand up. I thought I' d be quick

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enough to aim the rifle and shoot. Then this one would be hurt and

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I could run away when I tried
to move to get the rifle right.

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The creature moved again was almost as
if it understood what was happening then,

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when I knew that I couldn'
t wait any longer and that creature would

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jump on me sooner or later,
I thought I should act quickly. I

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took the rifle, but before I
could even point the creature flew away in

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the dark. The darkness prevented me
from seeing exactly where I was, but

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I could hear it that thing seemed
to be able to see in the darkness,

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for before I could locate it it
threw itself upon me. I felt

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his claws in my right arm,
making me release the rifle almost immediately,

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he didn' t seem to want
to take me rather he wanted to hurt

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me, because when he grabbed my
arm he immediately released it just to throw

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himself again this time on my back, leaving serious scratches on it. The

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impact knocked me to the ground.
I tried to recover enough to see the

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creature fly again. Determined to defend
myself I took the rifle off the ground

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and without even pointing too much,
I fired that stopped his flight dry.

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I don' t think I expected
him to shoot one of his wings.

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I' m not so sure,
since he screamed in pain. It sounded

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awful like the sound of some rat
trapped in a sticky trap, only it

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was much stronger and more painful.
Fortunately, those screams were the only thing

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that happened, as the creature began
to flee immediately. I tried to reload

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to shoot again but the creature was
lost between the dark and the trees.

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I barely had the strength to go
back to the place where I was staying.

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I could not sleep all night,
both for the pain of the wounds

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inflicted on me by the creature and
for the fact that I could not help

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but visualize it every one that closed
my eyes. I thought that I couldn

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' t do anything about this world
and it all shook me. Two days

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passed and I thought I might leave
that terrifying experience in the past. I

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' d just have to lock myself
up at the time everyone said and take

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my precautions. But that wasn'
t going to be so simple. After

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my confrontation with the creature, the
disappearances of children began to increase. Not

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only did he stalk those who stayed
late in the village, but there were

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reports that the creature entered the houses. No one understood how or why I

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had started doing this, but I
felt a little guilty. In less than

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a week, four children had disappeared. I didn' t know if that

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had anything to do with having hurt
the creature or not, but that'

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s how it felt. I didn' t know what to do. I

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thought I' d go away and
leave all that behind, try to forget

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it and never mention the subject again, but I knew that all that wouldn

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' t be solved simply by leaving
the town. I had to at least

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try to face that thing. Again, thinking about facing her filled me with

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fear. It was no longer like
that first night when I didn' t

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even know what I was up against
and thought it might be a simple bird

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of unusual size. Now I knew
exactly what it was that took the children

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and no doubt, seeing her again
was not something that interested me very much.

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I still took those disappearances as my
responsibility. I had confronted her and

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somehow seemed to have taken her rather
personally. What I didn' t understand

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was why he didn' t come
looking for me and instead, he took

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the children. One night, while
I was wandering around in my bed,

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I could hear that sound again,
the same sound I had identified that first

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time. Initially, that sound paralyzed
me for a few seconds as he remembered

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what it was like and what had
happened that day. Fortunately, that fear

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went away I thought I did want
it to end. If he wanted to

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sleep well again and have a clear
conscience, then he had to face that

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creature again. I got up immediately
I saw through the window and, while

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I could not see her flying over, I could see the shadow that was

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projected thanks to the moonlight, I
loaded the rifle and came out. I

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remember seeing that it was there.
It looked like he was coming at me.

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At the same time I began to
point towards the sky hoping to see

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it, but at first I did
not see it. I thought maybe he

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was scared and he was gone,
he was about to go back in.

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When I heard it again, it
was coming directly at me, just as

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I was behind my back, I
turned and with all the courage I could

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gather, I shot before I could
get there. I could hear that horrible

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cry of the creature again. As
I tried to fly back, I went

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fast enough to give a second shot
and when I went a little into the

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jungle, I could see how it
fell. I was more surprised by the

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fact that no one else in the
village left their homes. Despite all the

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fuss, I think the fear of
being carried away by that creature was much

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stronger than his curiosity to know what
was still going on. I didn'

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t think about it much. At
that moment I ran right out to her.

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I wanted to finish the job,
but when I got there I didn

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' t run into a weird creature. On the ground was a name,

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he had a gunshot wound to the
side of his abdomen and mouth. Blood

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was starting to come out. I
didn' t know it was exactly what

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I expected to find when I arrived, but surely finding a wounded man wasn

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' t within my expectations. That
man didn' t talk, he just

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seemed to be trying to breathe.
Not knowing what else to do, I

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decided to go get help with other
people. When I was finally able to

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get a family father to listen to
me enough to get him out of his

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house with me to see that man
hurt. When we got there, we

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ran into the fact that there was
nothing left. The place ate a pretty

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weird smell. I explained what had
happened and how I had found the man

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lying there. I thought people would
take me for a madman for my surprise.

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Everyone there seemed to believe me they
told me that they already suspected that

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that creature was one of the same
and now they corroborated it with what I

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told them. That was the last
thing that was known about the creature in

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that town, since it was never
seen again. I don' t know

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if he died or if he didn' t want to come back anymore,

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since he' d been found out. I was teaching there for almost a

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year and a half more, but
because of personal situations, I had to

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leave that town after that and I
didn' t come back. I hope

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that creature has never returned, and
I also hope that I will never again

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experience any experience similar to what I
lived that time. Wilson had been so

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much of my life in complete solitude. My brothers and parents had just died

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two years ago from a car accident. I worked from home, I didn

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' t know or it took me
long to get out of it for absolutely

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nothing, except to make the pantry. I had a neighbor named Fausto,

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a good person, but he used
to work a lot and even if he

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wanted to, he didn' t
have much time to spend with me,

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he had already noted some symptoms of
depression in me, so Fausto decided that

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it would be best if he had
a type of company. One good day,

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he came to my door with a
beautiful half- breed puppy. I

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asked him why he bought me that
dog. He assured me that one of

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his friends had a little dog who
had died by giving birth to those puppies

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so they were looking for a house
for them, as they could not keep

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them all. I wasn' t
entirely convinced to accept a dog. I

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didn' t think I could take
care of anyone and I knew that dogs

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were plaintiffs, so I initially turned
it down. He asked me yes,

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I really didn' t. I
wanted to at least keep it for a

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couple of days while I was looking
for a new home for the dog.

416
00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:08.039
I accepted a little, although I
didn' t want to take that responsibility.

417
00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:13.800
I didn' t want Fausto to
feel bad either. The days passed

418
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:19.199
and I became more fond of that
dog, which I named Wilson. I

419
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:23.360
knew that was Fausto' s plan
from the very beginning, as he never

420
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:28.519
mentioned the fact that he was looking
for another house for the dog again.

421
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:31.440
I didn' t care about that. It had been a very good idea.

422
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:37.320
I began to have fewer and fewer
episodes of both anxiety and depression,

423
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.280
and that dog kept me company,
becoming the most precious thing I had.

424
00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:47.760
This changed the day when, during
one of the rides with Wilson, due

425
00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:53.119
to a September party, they threw
a lot of pyrotechnics, which caused Wilson

426
00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:59.639
to panic. Like he was a
big, strong dog. I ended up

427
00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:04.599
letting go of the thing I was
carrying him with and it was completely impossible

428
00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:06.840
for me to find him that night. I should' ve been looking for

429
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:09.719
him for months. Every day I
would stick flyers and publish the photo of

430
00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:14.199
my dog in the hope that someone
would see it and return it to me.

431
00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:20.519
He even offered a great reward for
him, but none of it worked

432
00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:25.079
and that caused me to fall even
further into that pit of depression that Wilson

433
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:30.119
had helped me get out of.
There were many nights when I couldn'

434
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:36.320
t sleep and right on one of
them I got a call from a person

435
00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:39.920
who didn' t tell me his
name and to be frank, I didn

436
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:43.320
' t think to ask him either. It was a rather strange call.

437
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:49.679
This man asked me if I owned
Wilson. I immediately replied yes. I

438
00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:54.119
asked him if he was okay.
I began to fill it with thousands of

439
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:58.840
questions regarding my dog, The man
on the other side of the line just

440
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:02.880
kept quiet until I stopped asking and
told me that I had seen him on

441
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:07.559
a street from which he gave me
the address before I could thank him or

442
00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:14.760
mention to him the reward that this
one offered I hung up I wanted to

443
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:17.480
see my dog at all costs.
So, before I could think about what

444
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:22.119
I was doing, I was already
putting on my shoes and going to the

445
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:29.159
direction that that man had given me
when I got there, I was anxious

446
00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:34.840
to find him. I should have
been walking down that same street for hours

447
00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:38.199
calling him. I was almost about
to give up, thinking maybe the call

448
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:45.679
had just been a bad joke.
But just as I was about to leave,

449
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:50.000
I heard a very characteristic bark.
There was no doubt. To me,

450
00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:54.519
that bark was Wilson' s.
The bark was coming after some trash

451
00:37:54.559 --> 00:38:00.400
cans and as soon as I got
there, I started calling him with the

452
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:04.920
expectation that he would recognize me when
I checked behind a container. There was

453
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:10.280
his back hair. He was slightly
erect and looked rather thin and somewhat fearful

454
00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:15.760
in his eyes. I almost cried
at that moment just thinking about all the

455
00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:21.800
hell that had to happen during those
days that he wasn' t with me

456
00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:24.280
trying to calm him down, I
told him that everything was fine and I

457
00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:30.400
approached slowly. He seemed to recognize
me immediately, as he greeted me by

458
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:34.840
licking me and moving my tail with
my happiness back to the top. I

459
00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:39.599
took him back home, hoping to
finally sleep a full night, knowing that

460
00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:45.559
my dog was safe that day I
slept until later than I commonly used to.

461
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:51.760
It should be almost one in the
morning when I was awakened by a

462
00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:55.039
somewhat snoring voice as if it came
from a scratchy throat. I thought at

463
00:38:55.119 --> 00:39:00.440
first that maybe I could have left
the cloth on. I got up and

464
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:06.480
went towards this one. When I
arrived I saw that the TV was off.

465
00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:10.480
That seemed a little weird to me, but I immediately forgot. Seeing

466
00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:17.480
Wilson from a corner staring at me
strangely, I hardly noticed Wilson not meeting

467
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:23.519
me in bed. When I woke
up, the dog was there watching me

468
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:30.320
doing absolutely nothing but looking at me. His eyes were a little different.

469
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:35.800
At times they seemed almost human,
but I didn' t want to pay

470
00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:38.199
attention to that. I called Wilson
and the dog stopped seeing me to run

471
00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:44.360
towards me. That same night,
when I was trying to get back to

472
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:47.039
sleep. I was just about to
fall asleep. When I heard that voice,

473
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:52.000
I could not understand what it was
saying, for it seemed to come

474
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:57.440
from outside my room. I tried
a little to understand it, but when

475
00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:00.599
I woke up completely, I could
only notice that my fart was not with

476
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:06.079
me. I got up and went
to the living room believing that maybe my

477
00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:10.920
dog was there. As I walked
down the hall. I could notice that

478
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:16.079
that strange voice I had been listening
to was becoming clearer and clearer. I

479
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:21.719
realized that I didn' t say
any words or consenting words. On the

480
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:27.800
contrary, he seemed to be simply
emitting sounds before laughing in a strange way.

481
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:31.119
I looked in the room thinking that
someone was there, but there was

482
00:40:31.199 --> 00:40:37.079
no one but my dog sitting on
the couch the moment he noticed my presence,

483
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:42.440
turned with exactly the same look I
had noticed a few hours ago.

484
00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:47.679
I was so uncomfortable that I couldn' t even call him to come to

485
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:52.480
sleep with me. I just went
back to my room leaving him alone and

486
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:58.880
despite all of the above, I
left my door open just in case I

487
00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:01.159
wanted to come back to sleep with
me. It took me a while to

488
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:06.280
fall asleep, as every time I
closed my eyes, that look of my

489
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:09.760
dog came to my mind, something
in it troubled me. I was convinced

490
00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:14.719
my dog hadn' t looked at
me like this before. On the other

491
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:20.480
hand, I was trying to convince
myself that I had spent a lot of

492
00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:24.119
time alone and maybe that had changed
something inside him and that' s why

493
00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:29.239
I saw him so strange. None
of these answers pleased me, but I

494
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:34.360
ended up choosing to believe them.
That night I had a very strange dream.

495
00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:37.599
I dreamed that I would get up
from the bed and walk down the

496
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.880
hall looking for the switch, as
the light in the hallway was out.

497
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:46.880
When I finally arrived and turned on
the light, I saw Wilson at the

498
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:52.679
end of the hall, but he
was standing on two legs, completely upright

499
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:59.039
as a person. This scared me
so much that I woke up almost instantly

500
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:04.320
still somewhat exalted, but I was
very reassured to see Wilson sleeping next to

501
00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:08.679
me, which reassured me that it
had only been a dream and that I

502
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:15.960
just had to get used to having
company at home. It was again two

503
00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:21.400
days when nothing strange happened. That
night I was getting ready to sleep.

504
00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:25.679
Actually, I was already in bed. I had noticed that Wilson was not

505
00:42:25.719 --> 00:42:30.960
with me at the time, but
since he had come home, this was

506
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:35.400
common, so I no longer bothered
to go look for him or call him.

507
00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:39.679
I only left the door open in
case I wanted to go in to

508
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:45.039
sleep. I was lying down while
I was reading a book. When I

509
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:51.239
heard someone stirring and moving things in
my kitchen, that put me on full

510
00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:57.559
alert. I got out of bed
and started walking towards the kitchen. The

511
00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:01.159
sound stopped from moment to moment,
which made me stop too, but after

512
00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:08.639
a moment I continued walking. When
I finally arrived in the kitchen, I

513
00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:13.719
could see that everything was in order, except for one thing. On the

514
00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:20.079
table there was an open yogurt and
next to it a used spoon was completely

515
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:24.119
certain that I hadn' t eaten
that yogurt, so I couldn' t

516
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:30.519
explain who had done it. I
looked everywhere thinking that someone had come into

517
00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:34.480
my house to steal, but everything
was in place, or at least everything

518
00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:38.559
valuable, so it was even more
absurd to believe that someone had come into

519
00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:45.599
my house for the sole purpose of
eating a yogurt. He still couldn'

520
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:49.039
t explain any of this to me. When a sound in my yard alerted

521
00:43:49.079 --> 00:43:53.280
me, it was like someone was
walking, it sounded like a person.

522
00:43:54.039 --> 00:43:59.519
Immediately I went to the courtyard and
although I did not see a person,

523
00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:05.639
I could see them silhouette of someone
or rather said the shadow, which I

524
00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:08.440
could see thanks to the focus of
the courtyard that was always on. This

525
00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:14.840
seemed to be from a tall man
who walked a little bent. I immediately

526
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:19.239
took the first thing I had at
hand, which was my broom to have

527
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:23.320
something to defend myself with and opened
the door alerting him that I had already

528
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:28.159
seen it. When I approached the
place where I had seen that shadow,

529
00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:32.840
I saw no one. There was
Wilson, sitting still like a statue.

530
00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:40.400
He looked directly at a specific point
in the fence without broadcasting or making any

531
00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:45.760
sound. I thought maybe the person
who had entered the field had decided to

532
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:52.840
run away by jumping it near exactly
where Wilson kept looking. That relieved me

533
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:59.119
a little, as I thought that
person would think twice before returning. I

534
00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:02.840
was still worried about many things,
such as the fact that Wilson had not

535
00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:07.519
alerted me from the start, or
the yogurt eaten in my kitchen that I

536
00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:13.159
had not eaten. I decided that
it would be best to forget the matter,

537
00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:16.920
although I would make sure to close
all the doors properly from that day

538
00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:22.079
to the next day. I remember
eating my breakfast. When a wind ran

539
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:25.880
all over the kitchen with a smell
of rotten eggs, I got up to

540
00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:31.159
investigate, thinking something might be messing
up in the kitchen. But as much

541
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:36.880
as I looked, I couldn'
t find anything. While I was checking

542
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:39.480
the refrigerator, I heard the voice
again. I was sick of it and

543
00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:45.079
I didn' t want to go
on like this, so I walked where

544
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:47.519
I thought it was the origin of
that voice. When I got there,

545
00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:52.760
I saw my dog sitting down and
watching me again. I didn' t

546
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:57.800
know what was going on, but
I began to understand that whenever I heard

547
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.239
that voice, the dog was nearby. Just thinking made me feel a complete

548
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:07.360
fool of everything that had been going
on since Wilson had returned. It made

549
00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:13.079
me think that that could not be
a simple coincidence, so without knowing what

550
00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:17.119
to think, I stared at my
dog and asked if there was anyone talking

551
00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:22.519
to him. After asking my question, there was only an awkward silence.

552
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:28.719
The dog looked at me as usual
and for a moment I thought everything would

553
00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:31.360
be like the other times, but
this time there was a sudden change.

554
00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:37.519
The dog smiled. It wasn'
t a typical dog smile, it was

555
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:43.760
something quite human. That smile gave
me a total chill, so much so

556
00:46:44.199 --> 00:46:51.079
that I immediately left there, leaving
the dog alone while I was in the

557
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:54.880
garden smoking a cigarette and thinking about
what happened, I saw my neighbor Fausto

558
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:59.360
coming down from his car. Noticing
me there, he greeted me immediately and

559
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:04.760
is very critical of all my experiences. Since Wilson had returned, he told

560
00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:09.920
me that the strange behavior of the
dog probably must have been wasted so much

561
00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:15.079
time and that he only needed space
and time to adapt back to life at

562
00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:21.280
home. I took his words as
absolute truth, thinking maybe he was right.

563
00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:25.880
Maybe I was exaggerating things and my
dog was just trying to readjust to

564
00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:32.000
the home around 11: 00 p
m after watching TV for a while,

565
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:37.079
I got up to go to the
bathroom. I thought I' d go

566
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:40.159
to bed later, but when I
got out of the bathroom, I heard

567
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:45.000
that strange voice again. I walked
back to the room, convinced that the

568
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:50.320
origin of the voice was related to
Wilson. When I got there, the

569
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:54.679
dog was sitting completely alone and doing
nothing else. At that time I made

570
00:47:54.719 --> 00:48:02.079
a comment that I sincerely regret today. Looking directly at Wilson, I told

571
00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:07.800
him I knew he was the one
talking. I clearly didn' t mean

572
00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:13.320
it. I just wanted to see
his reaction or make a little joke to

573
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:16.079
relieve the tension. As soon as
I did, the expression on my dog

574
00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:21.480
' s face changed completely. He
looked at me seriously and his eyes became

575
00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:25.159
deeper and more human than ever.
My dog stood on two legs and just

576
00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:29.880
stared at me. That scared the
shit out of me. I ran to

577
00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:35.400
my room to lock myself in.
I could hear Wilson' s legs rushing

578
00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:40.559
behind me, but for my fortune
I managed to lock myself up before I

579
00:48:42.199 --> 00:48:45.000
could reach out I could hear the
dog scratching the door. I didn'

580
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:49.679
t know what to do. I
felt like I was going crazy and I

581
00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:52.760
was starting to get into a hysteria
attack. The dog kept talking to me,

582
00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:58.599
insulting me or simply asking me in, but I didn' t open

583
00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:02.119
the door. While I was still
there almost panicking, I could hear my

584
00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:07.920
phone ringing I took it and saw
that it was calling me Fausto. He

585
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:12.360
didn' t even let me tell
him anything about what was going on,

586
00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:16.519
since he started the conversation wondering if
he was okay. I didn' t

587
00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:21.519
know what to say. I just
kept quiet while he was telling me that

588
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:25.880
there were a lot of barking coming
from my house and I wanted to see

589
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.480
why the dog was barking that way. Those words made my blood freeze even

590
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:37.320
more. I wasn' t listening
to barking. The dog was literally quiet,

591
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:42.559
so I didn' t understand why
Faust listened to barking. I told

592
00:49:42.599 --> 00:49:46.239
him the dog had a very weird
behavior and he was scared. He told

593
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:50.920
me to stay there and he'
d come see me not to worry.

594
00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:57.639
Fausto arrived a few minutes later and
just as the door opened. The noises

595
00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:02.159
stopped completely. I' m still
locked up for a while until I heard

596
00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:07.440
how Faust. I was knocking on
my bedroom door and wondering if it was

597
00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:13.199
okay. I was asking him if
my dog was there, but he told

598
00:50:13.239 --> 00:50:16.719
me he hadn' t seen Wilson. Nowhere. I opened the door and

599
00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:22.639
we both looked for Wilson, but
this one never showed up again. I

600
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:25.280
still don' t know what I
took home that day. I' m

601
00:50:25.400 --> 00:50:38.800
convinced it wasn' t my dog. I was cursed. My name is

602
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:44.440
Leonardo. When I was almost twenty
years old, I was completely homeless.

603
00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:50.159
On more than one occasion I fell
asleep in public places or on some benches.

604
00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:53.519
I can' t imagine how hard
it had to be for my parents

605
00:50:53.559 --> 00:51:00.199
to see me in that state where
I used substances, but I think they

606
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:05.679
thought that if with tinotinua they helped
me and encouraged that behavior, I would

607
00:51:05.679 --> 00:51:08.519
never be able to straighten myself out. I remember perfectly how this curse began.

608
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:14.480
I found myself on a bench reneging
a little bit of my luck,

609
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:19.519
because my last can of beer had
fallen to the ground and I had no

610
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:23.920
money or anything to buy more.
I was there just when a man came

611
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:29.880
by my side and stared at me. I knew that man was pretty well

612
00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:34.360
known in the village and not exactly
for the best reasons. Everyone in town

613
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:38.960
said he was a very bad sorcerer. I didn' t believe in any

614
00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:45.599
of that nonsense, but no doubt
the man gave a mysterious air, which

615
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:50.880
was denoted a lot when he was
a little younger. I remember I was

616
00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:55.719
even a little scared, not so
much because I was a witch, but

617
00:51:55.960 --> 00:52:01.400
because I thought I actually used that
facade to commit real crimes without anyone bothering

618
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:07.719
him. At that time I felt
no fear or anything. It caused me

619
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:12.920
a lot of indifference. That man
seemed to be quite interested in me.

620
00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:16.000
That time, then, he stood
right in front of me and offered me

621
00:52:16.079 --> 00:52:20.239
a can of beer. He called
me by my name and told me he

622
00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:24.079
' d been seeing me those days. He was pretty empathetic. He mentioned

623
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:30.119
how difficult it was to live on
the street and he also mentioned how only

624
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:34.159
I should feel at that moment having
lost the support of my parents and my

625
00:52:34.199 --> 00:52:39.079
entire family. He really hurt me. I had not spoken to anyone until

626
00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:45.360
that time, but I was very
sad about everything that had happened and how

627
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:50.079
my life had ended. That man
proposed that I go to live with him

628
00:52:50.199 --> 00:52:53.960
and help him with some things in
his home at the same time as his

629
00:52:54.000 --> 00:53:00.119
work. That proposal missed me a
little, but I also thought I didn

630
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:05.039
' t have much choice at that
point in my life. It was the

631
00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:09.440
opportunity to have a place to sleep
and be, not to mention that I

632
00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:14.320
could earn at the same time a
little money to continue with my lifestyle.

633
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:19.239
After just thinking about it for a
moment, I decided to accept the man

634
00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:22.199
' s offer. After all,
I didn' t think anything would happen

635
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:27.679
His house was pretty far from the
rest. I asked him the reason and

636
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:32.360
he told me that people were quite
ignorant and that it was best to be

637
00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:37.199
away from those people. I figured
that made sense. I didn' t

638
00:53:38.199 --> 00:53:42.320
ask any more questions inside his house. I could notice that the rumors that

639
00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:46.639
he was a sorcerer were true.
There were all kinds of weird things like

640
00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:52.079
jars with foreign substances, an altar
and objects that seemed to be used for

641
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:57.360
ritual or clean. I didn'
t know anything about it, but that

642
00:53:57.400 --> 00:54:00.679
whole place got a little weird.
Still, I decided that if I didn

643
00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:07.679
' t care about that, everything
could work perfectly. The first tasks this

644
00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:14.039
man gave me were quite simple.
My tasks ranged from cleaning up some parts

645
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:17.639
of the house to going shopping for
all those rare herbs I always used to

646
00:54:17.639 --> 00:54:22.440
have. I also realized that there
were people who were going to see him.

647
00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:28.639
This one never allowed me to hear
what those people were about, but

648
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:34.079
as little as I knew, some
seemed to go for illnesses, that the

649
00:54:34.199 --> 00:54:37.079
doctors said they no longer had a
cure or they were going to get clean.

650
00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:44.199
All that seemed silly to me I
thought those people really needed to go

651
00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.920
to a doctor instead of going with
him, but I just kept my comments.

652
00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:52.199
I didn' t want the man
to think he was disrespectful and then

653
00:54:52.280 --> 00:54:58.679
throw me out of his house one
day. I remember that when I came

654
00:54:58.719 --> 00:55:02.599
back from the errand, I could
r was a woman lying on the stretcher

655
00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:07.599
that he had while he was passing
a hen through his body. That seemed

656
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:13.119
so strange to me that I couldn' t help but stand there watching what

657
00:55:13.159 --> 00:55:17.039
was going on big was my surprise
when, after a while of doing that,

658
00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:21.800
the hen died out of nowhere.
There was no sound. He just

659
00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:24.360
died. I couldn' t see
any more, because when this happened,

660
00:55:24.719 --> 00:55:29.920
I couldn' t help but make
a sound, which alerted the man that

661
00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:34.119
I was there and told me to
leave that very afternoon. That man told

662
00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:37.920
me he couldn' t be interrupting
the sessions he had with his clients.

663
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:44.199
I apologized and told him I didn' t know he was working at the

664
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:50.320
time, but the doubt kept eating
me. I asked him what had happened

665
00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:54.039
to the chicken. The man thought
about it a bit, but finally he

666
00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:59.679
told me that the woman had done
him a very strong job and that was

667
00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:05.519
why the hen had died. I
was genuinely interested in everything he was saying

668
00:56:05.559 --> 00:56:10.440
to me, which triggered him to
tell me that if he was interested,

669
00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:15.199
he could teach me a little bit. I had the condition that if I

670
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:21.519
accepted to be his apprentice then I
would not question absolutely anything that he sent

671
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:28.360
me, for he knew why I
was doing things and I should always obey.

672
00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:31.840
It had never been my strong point, but I was interested in learning

673
00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:37.679
all that. Besides, he earned
pretty well by doing those things. I

674
00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:40.960
thought that I could charge the same
once I knew how to perform them,

675
00:56:42.159 --> 00:56:47.239
so I ended up accepting at first. He taught me some pretty basic things,

676
00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:53.159
like how to do clean with an
egg, as well as differentiate when

677
00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:58.440
a person was attached, to a
tie or, to a curse, He

678
00:56:58.559 --> 00:57:00.840
told me that I could see in
his eyes and also in the tone of

679
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:07.079
his skin. He explained exactly the
points and characteristics that some curses had.

680
00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:14.360
All that really interested me, but
soon things began to become a little more

681
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:20.800
twisted. The teachings quickly went from
helping people feel better, to doing jobs

682
00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:25.320
for which people felt bad like haunting
people with land of pantheon, love,

683
00:57:25.519 --> 00:57:32.440
and curses. I realized that he
was much more able to cast or curse

684
00:57:32.599 --> 00:57:38.239
than to remove them. I thought
that was a little bad. I didn

685
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:44.480
' t see the right thing to
do with people, but I didn'

686
00:57:44.559 --> 00:57:49.480
t say anything, as I had
promised, that I would obey and be

687
00:57:50.159 --> 00:57:54.320
a good learner so I just let
myself continue teaching one day. He told

688
00:57:54.400 --> 00:58:00.840
me that if I had ever heard
of the Nahuales, I had only heard

689
00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:07.079
of them as a fairly popular legend
in the village. There was even one

690
00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:10.639
where they said they had seen one
prowling around the village. I' ve

691
00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:14.880
never seen him before and I didn' t believe in those children' s

692
00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:17.800
tales. Now that this man mentioned
it, I began to rethink whether it

693
00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:22.920
could be real after giving him a
brief explanation of what I thought was a

694
00:58:22.920 --> 00:58:27.800
gual. He told me yes,
indeed, but he also told me that,

695
00:58:27.840 --> 00:58:30.679
in fact, anyone could become one
if I proposed, that intrigued me

696
00:58:30.679 --> 00:58:38.679
a lot and I saw myself succeeding
in becoming some animal. That possibility pleased

697
00:58:38.679 --> 00:58:45.199
me and implanted too much into my
brain. Very soon I found myself asking

698
00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:49.000
you, please, to teach me
how to do it so that I could

699
00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:52.360
carry it out. The man told
me it wasn' t a simple thing,

700
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:57.679
but he was willing to teach me
if he really wanted to. I

701
00:58:57.760 --> 00:59:00.320
' m not gonna say all the
things I had to do to be able

702
00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:04.719
to do that. I don'
t want anyone to repeat it or try

703
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:07.480
to recreate it. I' m
not carrying that. On my conscience,

704
00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:12.639
all I' ll say is it
wasn' t very nice. I started

705
00:59:12.719 --> 00:59:16.679
with soft things, but every time
everything went up and I felt obliged to

706
00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:22.679
finish it whenever I asked me to
do something that I wasn' t sure

707
00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:28.440
I told myself that I had already
come too far to retire at that time

708
00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:32.119
and ended up fulfilling what I asked
for. One of my last tasks to

709
00:59:32.199 --> 00:59:37.440
carry out my transformation was to give
him some blood. It wasn' t

710
00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:43.320
that complicated. I just had to
cut myself in the palm of my hand

711
00:59:43.360 --> 00:59:47.159
and give him what he wanted.
At first it seemed to be one of

712
00:59:47.239 --> 00:59:51.760
the classic tests I put on.
I poured a good amount into a bottle.

713
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:54.679
He was with me the whole time. While I was doing so,

714
00:59:55.079 --> 00:59:59.960
he told me that it was enough
and that he would go wash my hand,

715
00:59:59.960 --> 01:00:01.719
as it was still dripping. I
didn' t take long to do

716
01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:07.639
that and when I came back I
saw something a little weird, he was

717
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:12.639
separating a part of my blood that
he had spilled into the bottle was so

718
01:00:12.679 --> 01:00:15.159
focused on what he was doing that
he hadn' t even noticed that I

719
01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:20.679
was behind him. When he took
some blood, he began to add some

720
01:00:20.719 --> 01:00:23.880
things to it. At first I
thought he' d give me that blood

721
01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:30.000
to carry out some other commission,
but this didn' t happen. Noting

722
01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:34.199
that I was behind him, he
took the bottle and closed it in one

723
01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:38.840
of his pockets. I was going
to ask what I was doing, but

724
01:00:39.119 --> 01:00:45.800
I immediately stopped thinking that he knew
what I was doing and that he would

725
01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:49.599
probably give it to me. After
that, it never happened. I ended

726
01:00:49.719 --> 01:00:53.239
up getting what I wanted I could
turn into a gual or I think that

727
01:00:53.239 --> 01:00:55.960
' s what I am. I' ve read some things that make me

728
01:00:57.280 --> 01:01:00.440
believe that at the same time,
I might as well become another kind of

729
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:05.440
creature. I' m not quite
sure yet, because when I become,

730
01:01:05.800 --> 01:01:08.119
I don' t have any control
over what I do, I can'

731
01:01:08.119 --> 01:01:13.760
t even remember. They' re
more like blurry dreams, which I initially

732
01:01:13.800 --> 01:01:19.519
thought they were. I only remember
the first time I went to sleep and

733
01:01:19.639 --> 01:01:23.360
had a rather strange dream of myself
running on all fours and entering a henhouse.

734
01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:29.800
I can' t describe exactly what
happened there. I' ll just

735
01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:34.159
say most chickens didn' t tell
her. That day everything was so vivid

736
01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:38.840
and I woke up a little excited
in my bed. I tried to calm

737
01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:44.639
myself down thinking it had all been
a dream, but when I got up

738
01:01:44.639 --> 01:01:49.320
to try to wash my face,
I realized that my clothes were stained with

739
01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:52.280
blood and there were so many feathers
in my bed. That scared me a

740
01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:55.800
lot and I ended up telling that
man everything that had happened. He told

741
01:01:55.880 --> 01:02:01.599
me it was perfectly normal, that
I couldn' t control and that I

742
01:02:01.639 --> 01:02:06.239
could do it later in time.
I calmed down a little bit, not

743
01:02:06.239 --> 01:02:10.639
quite. He congratulated me for finally
being able to make it and told me

744
01:02:10.719 --> 01:02:14.639
that he was proud of me.
I soon realized that I was not in

745
01:02:14.679 --> 01:02:21.119
control at all of that situation.
He had dreams, but soon he was

746
01:02:21.159 --> 01:02:27.360
not only attacking animals, but also
people. Everything ended exactly the same with

747
01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:32.320
me, waking up with wounds or
covered with dirt or blood, which I

748
01:02:32.400 --> 01:02:35.639
didn' t know where it came
from or who it was from. I

749
01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:38.199
had no idea what was going on. With me. I didn' t

750
01:02:38.239 --> 01:02:43.320
want to hurt people, but it
was like I didn' t even have

751
01:02:43.320 --> 01:02:46.079
a decision on it. A little
scared by everything that was going on,

752
01:02:46.599 --> 01:02:51.719
I decided to tell the man that
I didn' t want to go on

753
01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:54.239
with all that. I told him
I wanted to stop turning and become just

754
01:02:54.360 --> 01:03:00.280
a regular person again. But he
told me that this was not possible,

755
01:03:00.679 --> 01:03:05.199
that I had accepted and had done
many things that I could never take back

756
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:09.119
from. All I could do was
try to learn how to control it.

757
01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:15.360
Time passed, but there were times
when I no longer even woke up in

758
01:03:15.400 --> 01:03:20.599
my bed, woke up in a
completely unknown place, in villages far away

759
01:03:20.679 --> 01:03:22.400
to where I lived. It didn' t make any sense to me.

760
01:03:22.760 --> 01:03:29.519
He seemed to be attacking specific people
he didn' t know, knew he

761
01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:32.639
couldn' t undo it, and
I began to tie myself to bed to

762
01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:36.519
avoid going out at night. In
fact, that was useless, because it

763
01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:42.360
always ended up untied and hurt people
again As time passed, I could not

764
01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:47.360
control anything that happened to me.
One day I found out about the motive.

765
01:03:47.800 --> 01:03:52.519
It was night and I was about
to fall asleep, since I didn

766
01:03:52.599 --> 01:03:54.960
' t want to transform again.
The dream became more and more heavy for

767
01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:59.800
me. And when I was about
to fall asleep, a knock on my

768
01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:03.119
window, which I still have no
idea it was, as it was very

769
01:04:03.159 --> 01:04:09.440
strong, I woke up again.
Alerting me, I decided to get up

770
01:04:09.559 --> 01:04:13.440
for some water and walk around the
house. While I was doing this,

771
01:04:13.719 --> 01:04:16.440
I could see the man sitting at
the table. He seemed to be doing

772
01:04:16.840 --> 01:04:19.840
something, which he couldn' t
do. Well, after a while,

773
01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:27.239
he seemed genuinely frustrated that he was
not getting the result he expected. At

774
01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:30.599
one point this one got up and
left the room through the second door,

775
01:04:31.079 --> 01:04:36.440
which allowed me to peek out to
see what I was seeing. That'

776
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:41.760
s when I saw something that iced
my blood. There was a picture of

777
01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:45.760
a man along with a black candlestick. There were also some strange symbols and,

778
01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:50.880
among all things, there was also
a photo of me in which I

779
01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:56.679
had written back what looked like a
phrase in a completely unknown language. I

780
01:04:56.719 --> 01:05:00.719
didn' t understand what was going
on, so I went out of there

781
01:05:00.760 --> 01:05:04.000
and went back to my room,
when I was about to get there I

782
01:05:04.079 --> 01:05:09.880
ran into the man, who looked
at me and questioned me because he was

783
01:05:09.880 --> 01:05:13.760
still awake. So late I told
him I had only gone to the bathroom.

784
01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:17.800
I returned to my bed and soon
afterwards I fell into a deep sleep,

785
01:05:18.480 --> 01:05:25.519
which seemed to come from nowhere and
again transformed myself. But this time

786
01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:30.840
there was something different, something that
changed everything, because in the fragments of

787
01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:34.599
sleep I had I could recognize the
person I attacked and it was the same

788
01:05:34.639 --> 01:05:39.440
person who was at the table of
man. Everything made sense to me at

789
01:05:39.480 --> 01:05:45.679
the time I was like the instrument
I used to hurt people. I woke

790
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:50.840
up the next day and confronted him
directly, telling him that I knew and

791
01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:54.599
that I wasn' t going to
do his instrument to hurt him. The

792
01:05:54.679 --> 01:05:59.559
man looked at me with a lot
of indifference and said that I really had

793
01:05:59.559 --> 01:06:02.559
no choice, that I belonged to
him and that I was going to do

794
01:06:02.639 --> 01:06:08.519
exactly everything he wanted, since if
I didn' t, he could really

795
01:06:08.519 --> 01:06:11.159
hurt me a lot. I was
very frightened and left that house immediately,

796
01:06:12.039 --> 01:06:16.800
but that did not stop me from
doing any harm in his name. I

797
01:06:16.880 --> 01:06:21.840
tried a lot of things like avoiding
sleep or hurting myself so I couldn'

798
01:06:23.039 --> 01:06:27.400
t carry out any of his orders, but none of that seems to work.

799
01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:31.239
I have also gone with many other
sorcerers to try to break whatever binds

800
01:06:31.280 --> 01:06:36.440
us to what compels me to obey
it, but these tell me that I

801
01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:42.480
accepted and that it is something that
cannot be broken. I feel completely cursed.

802
01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:46.159
Today there are some nights when I
can be calm, but there are

803
01:06:46.199 --> 01:06:51.239
others where I still continue to hurt
people I don' t even know or

804
01:06:51.599 --> 01:07:00.840
I' m even sure they deserve
it. A story written and adapted by

805
01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:00.440
Aurora. Escalante