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Mascot since I was a kid.
I remember that day we went to the

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lake. That day I was getting
very hot and my family was enjoying the

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fresh water from the lake. I
was with my dog Duke, a dog

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who was always happy, especially when
he played in the water. That day,

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as we threw his ball at her
to catch her Duke suddenly stood still

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and began to look toward the mountain. I also tried to see what I

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was looking at, but I didn' t get to notice anything weird.

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Duke looked nervous and from one moment
to the next ran towards the trees barking

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loudly. I started screaming his name
and asked my parents for help finding him.

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I ran after Duke as fast as
I could, but he wore flip

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flops and the soil of the mountain
was full of branches and stones. I

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didn' t last long running,
I tripped and fell to the ground.

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I hit my leg with a stone
and couldn' t help but cry.

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Sitting on the floor, I was
frustrated and worried about Duke. The tears

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were mixed with the dust on my
face and as I tried to get up

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I felt that my leg did not
respond well in the distance. He kept

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listening to Duke' s barking ever
further away. My mom came running to

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see if I' d been hurt
a lot. While she looked at me

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and calmed me down, my dad
kept looking for Duke through the bush.

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It was a long time before my
dad came back and, to my sadness,

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he came back alone. Duke didn' t show up. We didn

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' t find him that day or
the next. It was simply lost and

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there was nothing else we could do
at home. We had always thought that

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having a dog was not only for
company, but also for safety. A

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dog at home is a good protection. No matter what security measures one has

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like a gate or a high fence. A good dog will always help keep

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the house safer. After losing Duke, my parents decided we should have another

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dog. We adopt a bitch we
call Princess. She came to our house

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and although I always missed Duke,
Princess, she became a very important part

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of our family. She was a
good and loyal bitch, and with her

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at home we felt that security that
Duke had given us again. Personally.

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I never felt completely at ease with
Princess was different and the situation of how

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she came to our house always made
me see her differently. Princess had a

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strong character and was loyal. He
never fully earned my trust, as Duke

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had done. Sometimes when we walked
around the park or played in the backyard,

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I watched his behavior, always alert
and sometimes too aggressive with other dogs.

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This made me miss Duke even more, who was always playful and friendly

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to everyone. It had been more
than a year since Duke had been lost.

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I remember one particular day it was
rainy and I was reading in the

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middle of my reading. I heard
a bark I didn' t recognize.

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It was deep and resounding and made
me stop reading right away. At first

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I thought I was hallucinating, perhaps
wishing Duke would come back so much that

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my mind was playing a joke on
me. The bark didn' t stop.

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I put the book aside and stood
up to look out the window.

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Princess was at my side as alert
as I was, with her ears raised

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well and her body tense outside the
rain. He had left large puddles in

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the garden and the sky looked darker
than normal. I made the decision to

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open the back door arbe to better
understand what was happening. Princess did not

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wait, ran out into the garden, barking in the direction of the mountain

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surrounding our house. I kept trying
not to let myself be carried away by

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illusions. My heart was beating as
hard as that day when the duke disappeared.

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It was wet and slippery because of
the recent rain. As he advanced

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carefully trying not to fall princess,
he kept barking at the shadows that moved

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between the trees on the edge of
the mountain. I came closer to see

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better and suddenly in the dark I
distinguished a familiar figure. It was a

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big wet dog covered in mud that
hid the glow of his fur. I

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stared at him, almost breathless.
Couldn' t be, but he was

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a duke with his heart. Beating
fast, I ran towards him. Despite

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the mud that made every step difficult, Duke looked up and when he saw

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me his tail began to move slowly. He was skinny and looked tired,

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but it was undoubtedly he hugged him, feeling his fur cold and wet against

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me and he rolled up in my
chest as if looking for heat. Together

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with me and Duke and Princess,
following us back to the house, my

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parents couldn' t believe what they
saw when we walked through the door.

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We' re all so excited.
There were tears and laughter as we hugged

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Duke, who seemed as relieved as
we were to be back home. Of

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course he would need enough care to
recover completely, but that did not matter

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at that time Duke had returned.
The day after Duke returned home, we

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decided to take him to the usual
vet to make sure he was okay.

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After so much time lost, we
arrived at the office and the veterinarian and

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began to examine Duke carefully, checking
every part of his body, looking at

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his eyes and ears and feeling his
abdomen. While checking, the veterinarian commented

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that there was something different about Duque, something that had changed since the last

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time he had seen him. I
didn' t understand what he meant exactly.

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The vet kept showing concern. He
explained to me that the distinctive stain

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of duke, the one that was
patch- shaped and had always been his

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most characteristic sign, seemed to have
changed places. I was standing aside and

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I couldn' t see what the
vet was saying. Then I moved a

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little to get a better view.
Right next to the examination area there was

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a large mirror that covered almost the
entire wall I looked towards the mirror to

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see more of Duke' s reflection
and there I could clearly see the Spot

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on his right eye, just where
he had always gone. I was relieved

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to see you there, thinking maybe
the vet was wrong. I pointed this

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out to the vet by showing him
the reflection in the mirror, but what

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he said later left me bewildered.
He explained how reflexes work in a mirror,

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saying that if you raise your right
hand, the reflection shows you lift

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your left. If in the reflection
the Taint seemed to be on the Duke

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' s right side, actually,
in his body the Taint was on the

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left side. When I heard the
vet talk about the change in duke,

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at first I thought it wasn'
t important. It seemed so strange to

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me that I decided not to worry
too much about it. I kept thinking

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it might be a mistake or something
I didn' t quite understand. But

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when I got home and passed through
the big mirror we had in the living

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room, I remembered what the vet
had said. I instinctively stopped in front

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of the mirror and Duke, who
always follows me everywhere, also stood beside

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me. Looking at us in the
mirror, something made me feel strange.

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It was true what the veterinarian La
Mancha had mentioned in the form of a

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patch that Duque had always had in
one eye, now it was in the

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other. But what really puzzled me
was not just the change of the La

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Mancha side. I knew Duke perfectly, I knew every detail of his fur

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and at that moment, seeing our
reflection, I noticed that the patterns of

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his fur were completely inverted, not
only in the reflection, but really in

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his body everything was the other way
around. I stared at the reflection for

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a while, trying to understand what
I was seeing. Duke seemed to notice

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my confusion and, for some reason, turned away from the mirror as if

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he did not want me to keep
watching him like this. From that day

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on I began to notice changes in
Duke' s behavior that worried me.

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Duke had always been a very safe
and quite dominant dog, but his behavior

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began to change, especially in how
he treated Princess. Princess as I mentioned

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before, was a very brave bitch
and never let herself be intimidated by anyone.

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After that incident in the mirror,
she began acting differently when she was

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near Duke. It wasn' t
just my impression. My parents noticed it,

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too. Duke was more aggressive and
dominant towards Princess, something that had

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never happened before. Princess, for
her part, seemed to be afraid of

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you now. Before she was not
afraid to face him, but now her

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behavior had changed completely. This became
evident in the way Princess barked at Duke.

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Before his barking was strong and safe, but now there was a tone

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of panic and fear in his voice. Every time she barked at him it

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was like she was scared or confused. It made no sense and left me

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thinking about what might be going on. My dad, noticing my concern,

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tried to calm me down by suggesting
that perhaps the change in Princess' behavior

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was because Duke had returned from the
bush with smells of other animals and that

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had altered her. But this explanation
did not convince me at all. If

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that were the case, Princess would
have shown fear or nervousness from the moment

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Duke returned. But it wasn'
t like that. She started to behave

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differently. Days after Duke arrived.
With the passing of days, things became

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even more strange and difficult to understand. Duke, who had always been a

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cheerful and playful dog, had changed
drastically, no longer responded in the same

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way When ur interacted. He always
moved his tail excited whenever I approached him

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or offered him food. Now his
behavior was completely different. When I spoke

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to him, he stood still,
staring at me as if he were assessing

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the situation or not recognizing me.
Only when I walked away would he slowly

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approach his plate to start eating this
change at Duke I was worried and confused

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and the strange did not stay there. Normally, the dogs on our street

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are calm and only get upset if
something unusual happens, like the sound of

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a siren or some loud noise at
night. But that night the noise was

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different. All the dogs barked as
if they were seeing or feeling something that

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disturbed them very much I woke up
startled by the noise was so loud and

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constant that I had difficulty understanding what
was happening. At first I thought maybe

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some wild animal had entered the area, which was not common, but I

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could pass by looking out the window
into the backyard. What I saw had

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nothing to do with an external animal, but with something much more disturbing among

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my own dogs. Princess was in
a corner of the courtyard completely bent down,

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her ears glued to her body and
tail between her legs. It was

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an image of fear and submission that
I had rarely seen in her. In

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front of her was duke with a
totally different posture than usual. I wasn

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' t relaxed or playful. On
the contrary, he showed a dominant and

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threatening attitude. It seemed much bigger
than normal because of how he had the

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hair on his back curled to see
this scene. It left me icy,

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not only because of the unusual behavior
of Duke, but also because there seemed

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to be an intense clarity in his
posture. It was as if he was

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warning Princess to understand that she should
stay away or something bad could happen to

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her was an attitude she had never
seen in him, not even when she

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played abruptly with other dogs. Without
thinking too much, I ran into my

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parents' room, hit the door
hard and told them that something weird was

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going on outside with the dogs.
After I told them that, I waited

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no longer and headed straight for the
courtyard. The atmosphere was loaded with tension.

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Duke was acting in a way he
had never seen before, with a

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threatening posture toward Princess who was clearly
frightened and cornered in a corner of the

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courtyard. I yelled at Duke trying
to get him to leave Princess alone,

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but he didn' t seem to
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He continued his aggressive behavior, completely
ignoring my calls. At that moment,

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my dad showed up in the yard
and seeing the situation was also quickly

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alarmed. My dad pulled something out
of his pocket. It was a whistle

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that, when I used it,
I couldn' t hear any sound,

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but Duke clearly did. Duke'
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he was upset or hurt by the
sound. That distracted Duke enough for Princess

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to take advantage of to escape his
cornering and run to the safety of the

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house. The events of that night
took place in just a few minutes.

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Duke' s reaction to the whistle
and his previous behavior made me realize that

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the dog who had returned from the
mountain was not the same Duke we knew.

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Something about him had changed profoundly and
it was as if a completely different

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dog had taken its place already calmer
and inside the house. I asked my

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dad about the whistle he had used. He explained to me that, aware

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that Duke had been alone in the
mountain for a long time, he had

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bought that special whistle thinking it might
be useful. My dad had the theory

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that Duke, having had to survive
alone in the bush, had become more

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aggressive, possibly as a mechanism to
defend himself against other animals. This aggressiveness

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now made him dangerous in a domestic
environment, something very different from what Duque

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was used to before he got lost. My dad suggested that perhaps part of

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the problem was that Duque was no
longer used to living in the home and

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that possibly allowing him to come in
and out at his whim could help him

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adapt to our home again and reduce
his aggressive behavior. My dad' s

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idea seemed reasonable to me and we
decided to try it in the hope that

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it would help Duke calm down and
adjust back to life with us, allowing

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him to feel freer. Until that
time I had not shared with my parents

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the strange and worrying detail about Duke' s inverted fur. The situation was

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already quite complicated and stressful, and
I did not want to add any more

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concern to what we were already facing
with their aggressive behavior. From the next

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day we decided to leave the gate
open so that Duke could enter and leave

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freely. We thought that allowing him
more freedom could help him adjust and perhaps

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calm his aggressive behavior. Princess,
for her part, was a strong and

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brave bitch, capable of defending our
home, which gave us some peace of

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mind about security. Far from calming
down, the situation with Duque became increasingly

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strange. Every time we let him
go out into the bush to do his

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needs. He came back with his
snout stained with a pink white color.

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We did not know what caused these
stains, but they clearly indicated that something

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unusual was happening in the bush.
Moreover, her relationship with Princess showed no

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signs of improvement. Every time Duke
approached her, Princess reacted with fear and

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ran to me looking for protection.
It was obvious that something was very wrong

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with Duque and my parents and I
were worried. We knew they were considering

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getting rid of him. They were
resisting that decision because they knew how much

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it meant to me. One day, while walking with Princess in our neighborhood,

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our neighbor approached. His expression was
serious and somewhat worried. He asked

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me if everything was all right,
which surprised me and left me speechless.

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For a moment I wasn' t
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in our family issues. He went
on to say that if at any time

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he needed help with my dog,
he would not hesitate to stop it later

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with a gentle but worried gesture,
said goodbye and went home. When I

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returned home, after talking to the
neighbor, my mother asked me to accompany

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her to the butcher shop. The
reason was that my dad had the suspicion

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that duke was hunting wild animals probably
small, which would explain why he was

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coming home with the pink- white
snout. My dad thought if we gave

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Duque traces of meat they sometimes sell
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He could stop hunting because he would
have at home the kind of food he

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liked. We went to the butcher
shop to get those meat scraps. I

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didn' t remember their names at
the time. We also decided to make

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some other purchases taking advantage of the
trip of After having made all the purchases,

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we returned home. Just as we
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house, we heard painful complaints that
clearly came from Princess. When I opened

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the door to the house, the
stage I found was heartbreaking and overcame any

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fear I would have had. Princess
was hiding under the kitchen table, trembling

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and with one of her legs bleeding
intensely. It was obvious that she was

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seriously injured. Luckily, she was
still alive. On the other hand,

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Duque was curled up on the carpet
with his snout stained red, indicating that

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he had been involved in some way
in what had happened to him. Princess,

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my mother, who had followed me
to the house, came right behind

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me. Seeing the situation, his
reaction was immediately angry at Duke. While

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she took care of the duke,
I quickly approached Princess. I picked her

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up carefully, trying not to cause
her any more pain, and I quickly

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took her to the car to take
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my mother, moved by anger and
the desire to protect Princess, ran

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for a belt. He took the
belt in such a way that the buckle

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remained in front and prepared to throw
it against Duke with the clear intention of

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hitting him on the snout as punishment
for his aggression. What happened next was

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completely unexpected and left us all in
shock. Duke, with an agility and

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precision I had never seen him before, caught the belt buckle with his teeth

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just as my mother tried to hit
him. Not only did he avoid the

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impact, but also, with a
quick pull, he took my mother'

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s belt out of her hands.
Right away. Duke ran out of the

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house, disappearing in the street with
his belt still in his mouth. The

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incident left us completely shocked, but
there was no time. We had to

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take Princess quickly. I told my
mother and she reacted. We left While

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Princess was receiving attention, we had
to explain to the veterinarian everything that had

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happened with Duke. When we heard
the details, the veterinarian presented us with

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a drastic option. I could sleep
Duke to avoid future incidents, warning us

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that the next attack could be on
even one person. That possibility left us

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very concerned, but we decided that
we needed to discuss it with my dad

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before making such a final decision.
The veterinarian also recommended that Princess stay under

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his care for a few days so
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With a heavy heart, my mother
and I returned home without a princess,

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feeling her absence every second of the
way back. When we got home,

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we noticed Duke' s absence.
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Recalling my neighbor’ s words about
offering help, I decided to go look

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for him to tell him what happened
and seek his advice. I went to

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his house and knocked several times on
the door, and after a moment,

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he opened. I quickly explained to
him the recent events and with a serious

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gesture, he mentioned that he feared
something like this could happen. Intrigued by

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his comment, I asked him exactly
what the neighbor meant. Then he shared

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a personal and disturbing story. He
told me that, before my family and

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I moved into the neighborhood, he
lived in his house with his own family

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and a dog. Like Duke,
his dog had been lost and returned a

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year later with a very altered behavior. He didn' t eat croquettes and

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started hunting small animals. The situation
escalated to a tragic point when one day,

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on returning from work, he found
his wife wounded, just as his

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son and the dog snarled a little
away from them with all the blood on

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his snout. In a desperate act, the neighbor had to kill the dog

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with a machete to stop it.
The rawness of history struck me deeply.

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Then the neighbor who said that in
the depths of the mountain lived something one

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thing. He couldn' t explain
to me what he meant, but he

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told me that what he lived in
the bush had changed his dog and now

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he had changed mine too. I
asked him what he meant by that change.

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The neighbor explained that when his dog
had returned after being lost for a

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year, his fur was upside down. He told me that he had noticed

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that detail from day one, but
had decided to ignore it, as his

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son was happy to have the dog
back. According to him, something would

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have been done. From the beginning, his family would not have suffered severe

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damage from that dog' s attack. His gaze became intense and worried as

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he warned me to kill Duke before
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The suggestion was alarming and left me
quite nervous. I confessed I wasn'

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t sure I could do something like
that. The neighbor left me there for

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a couple of seconds and when he
came back, he handed me a gun.

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He told me that as soon as
I saw the dog, I had

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to shoot him that if I didn' t, my family could die.

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After the neighbor handed me the gun, I was paralyzed for a moment,

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holding an object that I had never
thought would be in my hands. He

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told me to use it to protect
my family. The idea of firing a

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gun was completely frightening to me.
The gravity of his words and the fear

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of what might happen if he didn' t act moved me to carry the

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gun with me. I hid it
inside my pants feeling its weight against my

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hip as I walked back home.
Time seemed to pass very slowly that afternoon,

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my father arrived from work and worried
asked about Duque, who had not

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appeared. Since we returned from the
vet, we told him everything that had

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happened, including Duke' s strange
behavior and the neighbor' s stern warnings.

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Finally, at nightfall, Duke appeared. My mother was out taking out

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the trash. When all of a
sudden he screamed for help. My father

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and I ran out and found a
scary scene. Duke was about six meters

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away from my mother in a clearly
threatening posture. He showed him his fangs

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and had his fur erect, which
made him look even bigger and or threatening.

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Most disturbing of all was his eyes
that, for some reason, were

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completely red, as if the pupils
had vanished without thinking about what he was

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doing. I reacted instinctively to the
danger that represented Duke. For my mother

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I took out the gun the neighbor
had given me and with trembling hands,

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I handed it to my father.
He asked me where I got that.

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I replied that it didn' t
matter, that I had to kill Duke.

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Dad pointed and shot Duque in one
leg. The dog did not react

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as we expected, there was no
squealing of pain or complaining. It was

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as if I hadn' t felt
the impact of the bullet. He just

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looked back at my father and threw
a bark at him that sounded more like

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a strange grunt than any sound a
dog should make, seeing that the first

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shot had not had the desired effect, my father shot again this time to

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another leg. It was then that
things became even more strange and terrifying.

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Duke began to convulse violently and while
he was doing so, pieces of his

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fur and flesh seemed to be detached
from his body. What we were seeing

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was something that challenged all natural logic
and understanding. It was clear that what

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we had in front of us was
not just a dog. I didn'

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t know if what we saw was
a gual or a creature of legend,

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but it was definitely not an ordinary
dog. With the situation, escaping from

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any frame of normalcy, my father
fired again. But this time duke incredibly

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dodged the bullet. He made an
abnormally agile move for an animal, especially

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one that had already been wounded on
two of its legs. After that failed

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shot, Duque didn' t stay
to face the danger my father posed with

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the gun anymore, he started running. My father, determined to put an

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end to the threat he posed to
our family, ran after him with his

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gun still in hand. Concerned about
both the creature and my father' s

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safety, I ran behind him trying
to keep pace and be ready for anything

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that might happen. My mother stayed
behind at home, trembling with fear over

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what was happening in the pursuit.
My father tried a fourth shot, but

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failed. While Duke was running toward
the mountain, my father managed to hit

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a fifth shot. The sound of
the dog squealing confirmed that the bullet had

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hit. It was difficult to know
exactly where, as he ran, he

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was still stripped of fur and pieces
of meat. The creature, who once

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was a duke, emitted sounds of
pain and followed his frantic background into the

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mountain. I thought my father would
stop at the edge of the mountain,

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but to my surprise, the chase
continued into the darkness of the trees.

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As we moved forward, I was
a little behind. My breathing became heavier

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and the fear increased with every step
we took in that unknown and gloomy place.

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I heard a sixth shot, but
apparently it didn' t hit the

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creature. Finally, my father stopped
and with effort I managed to reach him.

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For a moment I thought that Duke
had fallen dead and that that was

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the reason my father had stopped,
but as I approached and saw what was

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before us, I understood the real
reason why he stopped what lay in front

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of us on the ground was no
longer recognizable as the dog we knew.

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It didn' t even look like
an animal. It was shaped like a

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per- zone, with head,
arms, and legs, but it was

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completely black and its eyes shone with
a disquieting light in the dark. It

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was something that resembled a person,
but clearly it wasn' t and definitely

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wasn' t an animal. The
creature was wounded lying on the ground,

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but still looked directly at us with
a look that communicated a clear intention to

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harm us. My father pointed directly
at the head of the creature and pulled

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the trigger, but no bullet came
out the gun was no longer in ammunition.

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He dropped the gun on the ground. Being snarled us weakly. Then

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he began to move away, crawling
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My father and I, without words, turned around and returned home, carrying

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with us the weight of the inexplicable
and praying it that we had experienced when

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we arrived home. The silence between
us was deep. We didn' t

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know how to explain to my mother
what we had seen. Words simply could

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not describe the horror and confusion of
that night. We didn' t tell

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him anything. The next day,
my father put the house up for sale

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and we got the hell out of
there. During the next week, the

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issue of the weapon obviously arose and
I had to explain to him that the

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neighbor had given it to me.
Of course my father was upset at first,

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but in the end he understood that, had it not been for that

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weapon, duke would most likely have
killed the three of us the grove.

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My grandparents before I was born left
Mexico and moved to the United States hoping

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to find better living conditions. They
were not alone in this adventure, as

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they took their children with them,
one of them my dad I was already

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born in the United States. I
was a citizen of that country. The

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life we knew suddenly changed when a
person for reasons we never knew. He

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decided to inform the authorities about the
irregular situation of my parents in the United

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States. It didn' t take
long for immigration agents to get to our

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house and take my parents. That
event completely altered our life. As a

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result, my whole family had to
return to Mexico and we stayed there for

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twelve years. The return to Mexico
was complicated for my parents. They faced

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many adversities and difficulties in reintegrating into
life in a country they had left years

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ago. Despite the few opportunities available, my parents always looked for the best

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for me. After much deliberation,
they decided to send me back to America

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to live with my grandparents. As
I crossed the border and arrived at my

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grandparents' house, I realized that
I would not be alone in this new

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chapter of my life. My grandparents
had taken in a girl named Romina who

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was my age. They had adopted
her to fill the void left by their

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children and grandchildren. Being far away, Romina and I quickly developed a friendship

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almost as if we were really brothers. As time passed, I adapted to

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my life in America. I also
became fascinated by everything related to the stories

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and legends of Mexico that my parents
and grandparents used to tell me. One

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afternoon, while chatting with my grandparents, I mentioned to the nahual a mythical

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creature from Mexico that is believed to
be animal- like. My grandfather,

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hearing this, smiled and told me
that there were no Nahuales, but that

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there was a similar creature called The
Grove. My grandfather explained that Grove was

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like a werewolf, but that its
transformations were much more unstable and unpredictable than

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those of ordinary werewolves. He told
me that these transformations were dangerous and could

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end in various ways. One of
them was tragic, as the person could

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lose his life in the attempt to
change because his body and mind did not

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resist the transformation. Another possibility was
that the person would become a worf bar

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a wild and uncontrolled being, capable
of hurting others for being lost in its

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beastly form. The last way was
to become a complete grove, capable of

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changing shape at will This was also
not safe and always carried risks. This

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story caught my attention because these creatures
were not identical to the Nahuales of Mexico,

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who also had the ability to change
form shared the same basic idea of

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human beings who, for different reasons, had acquired the ability to transform themselves

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into other entities. Two years after
learning these stories about changing creatures, our

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life faced a difficult time when my
grandfather was diagnosed with lung cancer. At

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that time, my parents had already
returned to the United States again without legal

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documents. My grandfather had been a
central figure in my life, especially after

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our return to America, and his
illness was a severe blow to everyone.

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My grandfather' s condition quickly deteriorated. Doctors did their best to help,

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but their health continued to worsen every
day. Despite his grave condition, my

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grandfather continued to smoke. He seemed
to have resigned himself to his destiny and

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decided to face his situation in his
own way, without leaving the cigarette romina

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that to me was like a sister. She felt very sad. For all

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this, every time I saw our
grandfather so weak and sick, I couldn

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' t help but cry. In
those days, when I could barely get

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out of bed, my grandfather kept
telling us stories and giving us warnings.

414
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He told us that the grove really
existed and that it was only shown in

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very special moments and under very particular
conditions. One day near the end he

416
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asked us to approach the window of
his room. Outside everything looked very nice,

417
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:50.239
because it was autumn and the sun
was all golden. The lake nearby

418
00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:54.119
shone calmly and in the sky there
was a large rainbow that seemed to reach

419
00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:59.519
the other side of the world.
My grandfather told us that kind of afternoon

420
00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:05.159
was perfect to see the grove.
I didn' t know whether to believe

421
00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:09.079
him or not I thought maybe medicine
and illness made him say things that weren

422
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:15.639
' t true. That night,
as the noise of my parents' little

423
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:20.159
fights filled the house and I tried
to think of other things not to listen

424
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:24.079
to them, something happened that changed
everything for our family. My grandfather,

425
00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:30.000
who had been ill for a long
time died before dying had said with a

426
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:36.719
quiet smile that an Iris bow would
illuminate his way to heaven and surprisingly,

427
00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:42.360
that very evening, an Iris bow
had gone out into the sky just as

428
00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:47.840
he had said Romina and I,
still very sad and moved, felt a

429
00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:53.360
mixture of peace and pain to see
how he had died so calmly. After

430
00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:57.880
my grandfather left the calm of the
place, it broke with gossip and stories

431
00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:00.599
of an attack, of a very
ugly bad girl near where we lived that

432
00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:07.559
bad day. Some who were out
on a field trip got lost in the

433
00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:12.480
bush. Later, those looking for
them found only their phones and pieces of

434
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:19.320
bones scattered everywhere. They said a
bear had been the one that attacked Romina

435
00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:22.719
and I couldn' t help thinking
that the grove, that creature our grandfather

436
00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:29.159
had talked about so much, had
to do with it. Romina was very

437
00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:35.000
scared and surprised and I was scared
too. I was trying not to show

438
00:38:35.039 --> 00:38:40.119
it and be strong. The next
summer I decided to go back to the

439
00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:45.320
cabin where our grandparents lived. It
was a place full of memories and feelings.

440
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:51.440
Romina who had just finished high school
and was about to start studying veterinary.

441
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:55.599
Thanks to some money our grandfather had
left her, she took her boyfriend

442
00:38:55.639 --> 00:39:02.119
Carlos one morning with a climate that
seemed good. Romina and Carlos went for

443
00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:07.960
a walk in Canoa, but suddenly
the weather changed a lot. The sky

444
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:13.280
got weird and a rainbow appeared.
That made me remember what my grandfather always

445
00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:16.920
said about when it was the perfect
time for the grove to show up.

446
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:23.039
The hours passed and there were no
signs of Romina and Carlos. We started

447
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:28.719
to worry a lot. My parents, very frightened, called the police and

448
00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:34.519
started looking for them everywhere. After
several hours, they found the things of

449
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:39.159
Romina and Carlos on a lonely beach
in the lake. There were also traces

450
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:45.519
of blood that made us think the
worst And yes, the bodies of Romina

451
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:52.440
and her boyfriend appeared lifeless. They
had been brutally attacked by some huge wild

452
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:58.159
animal that could not be identified.
My mother was devastated. I had promised

453
00:39:58.239 --> 00:40:02.639
the late grandfather that keeping her safe
my mother, overcome by pain, went

454
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.400
with one of her sisters to take
some time out of that place. I

455
00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:13.400
was left alone with my dad,
who was also trying to understand and accept

456
00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:17.400
everything bad that had happened to us. That summer was the hardest one of

457
00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:22.320
my life. I quit school and
got a welder' s job. Not

458
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:28.880
long after I met Saraí, we
fell in love, we got married,

459
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and we had a daughter that we
decided to call Lily. She quickly became

460
00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:37.199
the center of all our happiness.
In spite of that, the memories of

461
00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:44.679
my past were always present there as
shadows lurking from the darkest corners of my

462
00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:49.960
memory. Over the years and looking
for a respite and a new page in

463
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:54.880
our lives. We decided as a
family, to take a vacation. I

464
00:40:55.000 --> 00:41:00.400
chose a cabin that I had arranged
myself, thinking that moving away from our

465
00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:06.239
usual surroundings and those old memories could
be a good start to leaving behind the

466
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:10.960
tragedies that had marked my existence.
This trip represented an opportunity to start again

467
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:17.119
in a renovated place. Lilly,
who had turned twelve, was very excited

468
00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:22.800
about the idea of vacation, especially
because she would bring her two best friends,

469
00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:30.559
who were twins. Everything seemed to
be ready for this holiday to be

470
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:32.960
perfect. During one of the mornings
at the cabin, I decided to take

471
00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:37.519
Lily fishing to the dock. It
was one of those special occasions, a

472
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:43.679
quiet and happy moment between father and
daughter. Meanwhile, Saray stayed in the

473
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:50.559
cabin preparing burgers on the grill.
At one point, she worried and asked

474
00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:54.800
about Lily' s friends. I
replied that I had seen them just a

475
00:41:54.840 --> 00:42:00.199
few minutes ago with Lilly, but
when I looked over there I wasn'

476
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:06.000
t just. We assumed that they
had gone to play elsewhere, but suddenly

477
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:10.960
the sky that was clear began to
get dark. A big thunder rang in

478
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:17.039
the distance, a gentle rain began
to fall. Just at that moment I

479
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:22.480
felt a great fear, a fear
that reminded me of my grandfather' s

480
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:28.320
stories, stories of a monster that
appeared at just moments like this. The

481
00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:32.920
grove. At that time, with
a quick look, I looked for my

482
00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:37.559
wife and my daughter there they were
safe, but the ones that weren'

483
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:43.880
t there were my daughter' s
friends. I dimly looked in every direction,

484
00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:46.840
but I hadn' t found them. I looked at my watch anxiously,

485
00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:52.800
noting that it had been almost an
hour since I saw them For the

486
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:58.519
last time moved by a concern for
the girls, I took my phone and

487
00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:02.480
called the security of the place,
asking them to come and help find the

488
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:07.320
twins. As the situation was alarming, they sent a security man named Edgar.

489
00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:12.960
It came with a rifle, which
surprised me, but at the same

490
00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:19.800
time it reassured me a little because
anything had a way of acting by protocol.

491
00:43:20.119 --> 00:43:23.320
Edgar had to check the area I
had already checked. Obviously, there

492
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:30.840
was nothing. Then we started to
get into the Boscosa area. We move

493
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:36.360
in silence, focused on finding any
trace of the twins. When, suddenly,

494
00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:42.679
a loud roar from a few meters
ahead interrupted our thoughts. He told

495
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:46.719
me that he knew that roar,
that his grandfather had told him of a

496
00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:51.760
monster changes ways that he used to
attack those who knew of his existence.

497
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:59.480
I, almost automatically, asked him
if he meant the grove. Edgar turned

498
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:05.239
to see me and said yes.
As we kept moving fast, he asked

499
00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:08.280
me if I knew how to shoot. I said I knew, but I

500
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:13.119
didn' t have permission. He
pulled out a short gun and gave it

501
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:17.760
to me. We both needed to
be armed as much as we were looking

502
00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:22.119
for. We didn' t find
anything in that. Edgar suddenly stood there

503
00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:28.559
lying between the stones was lying the
backpack of one of the blood- stained

504
00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:34.280
twins. Next door I saw his
shoes that were broken and badly damaged.

505
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:38.440
At that moment the storm broke loose
with force. Edgar, who looked very

506
00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:43.239
worried, told me it was time
to get out of there that with the

507
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.440
storm on top we weren' t
going to find anything. Besides, that

508
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:52.360
was there the backpack and the slippers
indicated that at least one was already dead.

509
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:57.679
I told him we couldn' t
just leave on that. He took

510
00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:01.239
his radio and warned about it and
asked for support, to which he was

511
00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:07.679
told that it was not feasible to
send support, that the storm was electrical

512
00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:14.800
and that the area where we were
always suffered lightning impacts. It was too

513
00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:21.280
risky. They also told him that
we should return, that as long as

514
00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:23.360
the storm followed, there was nothing
more to do. There was nothing left

515
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:30.119
but to return. When we were
back, there was already the police,

516
00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:34.760
the ambulance and the parents of the
twins. They all came close to us.

517
00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:38.719
I wanted to talk, but Edgar
came forward and said that we had

518
00:45:38.840 --> 00:45:44.320
a trail, but that it began
to erase with the rain that as soon

519
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:50.800
as it stopped, we would all
go back from where we had stayed in

520
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:54.239
the rain. I went to see
my wife and daughter. She was obviously

521
00:45:54.559 --> 00:46:00.599
crying, very worried and frightened by
her friends. I tried to transport her

522
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:07.000
in less than an hour, the
sky began to clear and then Edgar I

523
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:13.079
the other safety of the place volunteers, the parents of the twins and the

524
00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:20.199
police among all we went to look
for Edgar and I went to the front,

525
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:22.679
we walked straight to where we had
found. The backpack and slippers were

526
00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:28.719
still there. From that point on, the police took control of the situation

527
00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:32.159
and divided us into groups of two
and told us in which direction to go

528
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:39.360
looking. Edgar and I went in
such a direction and about forty minutes after

529
00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:45.920
walking suddenly and without warning, something
big hit me in the back. The

530
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:50.760
blow was so strong that it fell
to the ground, but six meters from

531
00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:57.199
where I was literally pushed I literally
flew out, so Edgar fired four shots

532
00:46:57.239 --> 00:47:00.119
at what he had pushed me,
I got up to see and what I

533
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:02.519
saw wasn' t a monster,
but it wasn' t a person either.

534
00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:07.920
It was an intermediate point. The
monster was becoming a person as he

535
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:14.400
bled out by the time everyone who
heard the shots arrived, the group was

536
00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:20.039
already just a naked person, lifeless, lying between the stones. It was

537
00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:25.679
clear to everyone that this man was
responsible. I say what would you think

538
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:30.119
if two girls disappear and in the
middle of nowhere meet a naked man with

539
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:36.800
blood between his fingernails. After a
while, the paramedics arrived by the body

540
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:42.320
and took him to the ambulance.
Everyone else continued the search until one of

541
00:47:42.360 --> 00:47:47.360
the cops found the twins. They
were dead with nothing else to do.

542
00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:52.199
We' re back now to go
home, but I noticed the ambulance guys

543
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:59.159
were bringing something. They were weird. I came up to ask them what

544
00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:04.159
was going on and they told me
that the body of the man they had

545
00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:07.920
put in the back of the ambulance
had disappeared. The body was gone.

546
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:15.000
The ambulance doors had not been opened
from within or from outside. The corpse

547
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:28.480
of that man of the person who
was the grove had simply disappeared. It

548
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:32.119
wasn' t an animal. He
lived in an old five- story building

549
00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:37.480
that was located in a fairly quiet
part of the city. Each of the

550
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:43.519
apartments of the building was small designed
to be inhabited by at most one or

551
00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:51.199
two people were compact spaces that contained
the essentials to live comfortably without too much

552
00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:54.400
complications. Mine was located on the
top floor, which placed me just below

553
00:48:54.559 --> 00:49:01.960
the roof this location had a large
window. I had no neighbors directly above

554
00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:07.679
me, as there were no noises
of steps or furniture crawling around that could

555
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:14.320
bother me. The general atmosphere of
the building was quiet. He was not

556
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:17.840
exempt from the typical sounds one would
expect. Any place where several people live

557
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:23.559
together from time to time you could
hear a baby crying. There was also

558
00:49:23.639 --> 00:49:29.679
the sound of a neighbor’ s
television, whose volume sometimes rose high enough

559
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:34.519
to allow him to hear it.
From my apartment and could not miss the

560
00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:38.159
steps of the people who, in
haste did not climb down the stairs of

561
00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:44.199
the building. These sounds were part
of daily life and the walls were not

562
00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:49.800
too thick and allowed these noises to
leak. I' d gotten used to

563
00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:53.840
them. As for the neighbors,
most of us were working people who had

564
00:49:53.960 --> 00:50:00.960
similar routines. We would leave our
homes early and return either late or late

565
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:05.679
in the evening or late at night. This shared routine also helped to make

566
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:09.920
the atmosphere in the building generally quiet
during the day, as most of us

567
00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:16.559
were out for work. The neighborhood
around our building also reflected this tranquility.

568
00:50:19.000 --> 00:50:23.079
Dogs living nearby used to be calm
and there wasn' t much traffic on

569
00:50:23.199 --> 00:50:29.039
our street, which kept the outside
noise level to a minimum. I'

570
00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:34.119
ve always had the light sleep.
Any noise wakes me up and that night

571
00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:38.039
was no exception. The dogs on
the block were restless, they kept barking

572
00:50:38.079 --> 00:50:44.400
a fuss, it was already around
three o' clock in the morning and

573
00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:50.400
the situation showed no signs of calm. I decided I couldn' t keep

574
00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:54.159
trying to sleep without doing something about
it. Moved by the need to understand

575
00:50:54.239 --> 00:50:59.679
what caused such a stir. I
got up from the bed, walked into

576
00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:05.000
the window wave of my room and
looked up with the only intention of finding

577
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:09.360
out what was altering the dogs so
much in my mind I thought of several

578
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:15.920
possibilities. Maybe a thief surrounded my
property, or maybe some animal. Streetman

579
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:21.719
was looking for food in garbage cans
with silent steps so he wouldn' t

580
00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:24.840
wake up the other neighbors. I
climbed the stairs leading to the roof of

581
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:30.159
the building. The night was quiet, with the exception of the barking that

582
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:36.280
kept ringing insistently. When I got
to the roof I headed straight to the

583
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:40.079
edge. From that height, the
street was clearly bathed in the orange light

584
00:51:40.199 --> 00:51:45.639
of the lanterns. I leaned on
the railing. The dogs distributed along the

585
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:52.480
street seemed to focus all their attention
on a specific point in the middle of

586
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:57.559
the street. Some were standing with
their bodies tense and their ears raised.

587
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:01.679
Others moved restless from one neo to
the other. Everyone, without exception,

588
00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:07.599
directed their barking towards that central point, as if something or someone invisible to

589
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:15.159
me from my position was there.
I spent several minutes watching, trying to

590
00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:20.840
see any movement or figure that could
explain the agitation of the animals. Then

591
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:24.000
I saw him. The reason the
dogs were so brave and staring in the

592
00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:29.840
middle of the street was because there
was something there, a figure that captured

593
00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:35.320
the attention of both dogs and mine, something that really challenged any logic.

594
00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:45.440
The silhouette was unusually high, so
much so that I had not initially noticed

595
00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:47.480
it, because it was mixed with
the darkness of the night. It was

596
00:52:47.639 --> 00:52:52.000
so dark that, if it weren' t because at one point it passed

597
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:58.400
near the light of a lantern,
it probably would never have seen it,

598
00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:04.119
but there it was moving slowly under
the street lamps and with every step it

599
00:53:04.199 --> 00:53:08.639
took under the light more details of
its strange form were revealed. This figure

600
00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:15.679
seemed neither animal nor human. His
body was composed of a dark matter that,

601
00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:19.719
more than solid, looked like a
coagulated shadow. As his silhouette moved,

602
00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:27.039
he became more clearly delineated under the
intermittent lighting of the lampposts. From

603
00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:30.719
my elevated position on the roof I
observed that the head of this figure had

604
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:37.280
no facial characteristics. The contour of
his head was smooth, with no sign

605
00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:42.800
of eyes, nose, or mouth, as if it were simply a head

606
00:53:43.239 --> 00:53:49.239
- shaped void, an absence of
features that gave him an even more disturbing

607
00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:53.280
appearance. The most disturbing thing was
his arms, if so they could be

608
00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:59.760
called hanging on the sides of his
body unnaturally, the la and disproportionate compared

609
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:07.159
to the rest of his form.
These arms almost brushed the ground as it

610
00:54:07.280 --> 00:54:14.960
moved and ended up in what seemed
to be long, thin limbs similar to

611
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:21.599
twisted branches of a tree rather than
human hands. The dogs, completely mad,

612
00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:28.360
kept barking with an intensity that echoed
throughout the block. I stood still

613
00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:34.960
on the roof watching fear begin to
take hold of my senses. The curiosity

614
00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:39.800
was stronger and I kept my eyes
fixed to my place. In that strange

615
00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:45.719
figure moving slowly down the street,
every dog near her barked with all her

616
00:54:45.000 --> 00:54:52.519
might, but as soon as the
creature got away enough. The barking was

617
00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:58.239
abruptly extinguished. Every step he took
to the other end of the street seemed

618
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:02.719
to be accompanied by a gradual decrease
in barking behind it. After what seemed

619
00:55:02.760 --> 00:55:08.840
like hours, it was actually only
a few minutes. The figure finally disappeared

620
00:55:08.880 --> 00:55:14.760
from my sight. He hid himself
in the darkness of the night. When

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I lost sight of her, I
noticed how the dogs gradually stopped barking and

622
00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:25.360
everything on the street returned to calm
as if nothing had happened. Despite the

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silence that now reigned, I could
not sleep the rest of the night.

624
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:37.079
I stayed awake thinking about what I
had seen, trying to make sense of

625
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:43.119
something that was clearly beyond my comprehension. The image of the dark figure moving

626
00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:49.000
silently under the light of the lampposts. It remained in my mind. That

627
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.039
morning when I signed up to go
to work. It was the same time

628
00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:57.639
that many of my neighbors were also
leaving their homes. It has never been

629
00:55:57.719 --> 00:56:01.599
my intention to listen to other people' s conversations. Concerned voices and hasty

630
00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:08.800
comments They were hard to ignore phrases
like it was huge and didn' t

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00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:14.760
seem human. They knew something was
wrong. It was evident that I was

632
00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:19.159
not the only one who had seen
the creature. One of my neighbors,

633
00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:23.719
with a look of astonishment still visible
on his face, commented I saw how

634
00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:30.480
he passed right under my window.
Another addition did not seem real rather like

635
00:56:30.639 --> 00:56:36.280
a shadow or a trick of light, but it was there. I cannot

636
00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:44.000
deny it two months later, the
tranquility of our neighborhood was abruptly interrupted again

637
00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:50.039
that night, under a clear and
starry sky, the same feeling of restlessness

638
00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:55.760
took over the block again. Dogs
began barking again as sudden and frantic as

639
00:56:55.800 --> 00:57:00.360
the first time. Sa ba s
s s n two of my apartment and

640
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:06.440
I met other neighbors in the hallway
driving to the stairs. We didn'

641
00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:08.599
t have to say much. We' re heading towards the ladder. When

642
00:57:08.679 --> 00:57:14.840
we got to the roof we all
rushed to the edge, but what we

643
00:57:14.960 --> 00:57:20.760
saw that night was completely different.
Instead of the gloomy creature we expected,

644
00:57:21.519 --> 00:57:25.400
there was a person walking under the
same lantern where the dark figure had been

645
00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:31.880
seen before. He was someone who
seemed completely normal, an ordinary person walking

646
00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:38.239
quietly down the street. The bewilderment
took over all of us. As we

647
00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:45.519
watched from our high perspective, the
person showed none of the unusual characteristics of

648
00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:51.239
the creature we had seen before.
The dogs on the street reacted exactly the

649
00:57:51.239 --> 00:57:57.880
same way, barking loudly as if
they sensed something we couldn' t see.

650
00:57:58.079 --> 00:58:01.599
Suddenly, one of the neighbors next
to me murmured the nahual word.

651
00:58:04.119 --> 00:58:08.800
Right after that murmur, the figure
on the street stopped. It was too

652
00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:15.920
far away for us to see his
eyes or any facial expression clearly, but

653
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:22.320
the way he slowly turned towards our
direction was enough to leave us frozen.

654
00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:25.719
At that brief moment when his body
was oriented toward us, it made us

655
00:58:25.760 --> 00:58:31.639
feel like he was really seeing us. Despite the distance, he was detained

656
00:58:31.719 --> 00:58:37.840
looking at us for less than five
seconds. Then he resumed his walk,

657
00:58:37.760 --> 00:58:44.400
slowly moving away until his figure dissolved
in the darkness of the night. As

658
00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:50.079
soon as the figure moved away completely, the dogs stopped barking us even on

659
00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:55.400
the roof. We stared at the
void of the street in silence. We

660
00:58:55.480 --> 00:59:00.519
had actually witnessed the manifestation of a
nahual I do not know. I haven

661
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:07.320
' t finished believing it since that
happened. It' s been several years

662
00:59:07.400 --> 00:59:12.159
and every now and then the issue
comes up among the neighbors, especially in

663
00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:15.880
the inns or when someone throws a
party. Several of the neighbors are convinced

664
00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:21.599
that what we saw was still nahual, the first time in its monster form

665
00:59:21.679 --> 00:59:25.760
and the second time in its human
form. Every time they mention it,

666
00:59:27.119 --> 00:59:30.800
I try to get them against it,' cause I' m really not

667
00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:36.079
sure that was a hua. But
the argument that they always give me is

668
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:40.920
that when that neighbor mentioned that word, the person stopped immediately and saw us

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00:59:40.960 --> 00:59:45.719
again. That is, according to
them, the irrefutable proof that what we

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00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:57.880
saw was a nahual, the nahual
of the school. Upon arriving at that

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00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:01.519
community, which was in an ur
area where all the surroundings were pure mountain,

672
01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:07.800
I was excited and a little nervous
about starting my first job as a

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01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:13.199
primary school teacher. They sent me
to that place because the Community had been

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01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:16.119
without a teacher for several months.
Upon arrival I was greeted by the local

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01:00:16.119 --> 01:00:22.559
people, who showed a warmth and
hospitality that made me feel welcome immediately.

676
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:28.760
During the trip and the previous days
I had been looking for some rental room

677
01:00:28.840 --> 01:00:34.039
where I could stay, but last
minute the rector informed me that I could

678
01:00:34.079 --> 01:00:37.719
use the house where the previous teacher
had been living. When I arrived at

679
01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:42.480
the house, the first thing I
noticed was his state of abandonment. The

680
01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:46.280
Community had made efforts to clean it
up. The atmosphere inside the house was

681
01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:52.920
strangely oppressive. Despite the effort to
make the place habitable, there was a

682
01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:58.880
sense of loneliness and desolation that I
had difficulty ignoring. That first day I

683
01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:04.280
went to unpack and accommodate some things
to make the space more personal. It

684
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:08.800
was a long, tired day.
The first days as a teacher in that

685
01:01:09.039 --> 01:01:15.320
community went through the normality that can
be expected at any beginning of the school

686
01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:19.519
cycle, but there was something that
was deeply disconcerting to me. Some children

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01:01:19.599 --> 01:01:22.519
looked at me and told me a
word I didn' t understand. It

688
01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:28.639
wasn' t until a family mother
scolded her son for telling me that I

689
01:01:28.679 --> 01:01:34.320
discovered that the word meant demon.
This left me quite confused and concerned,

690
01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:38.880
without understanding why the children associated me
with such a term. As the days

691
01:01:38.920 --> 01:01:44.719
passed, the community began to open
up more with me and it was in

692
01:01:44.800 --> 01:01:50.159
one of those afternoons that a lady
brought me food and while we were eating,

693
01:01:50.760 --> 01:01:53.880
we began to talk about various things
about life in the Community. In

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01:01:53.920 --> 01:01:59.440
the midst of our conversation arose a
history of the past that left me pensive.

695
01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:06.440
He told me about an incident in
the 1960’ s when a priest

696
01:02:06.519 --> 01:02:12.119
had come to bless the school.
The teachers of that time had reported appearances

697
01:02:12.159 --> 01:02:17.559
of strange shadows and phenomena and,
curiously, after the priest' s blessing,

698
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:24.119
one of the classrooms had mysteriously burned
down during the morning. After that

699
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:29.880
talk, the lady said goodbye and
I was left alone thinking about what she

700
01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:36.559
had told me. To distract me
from those somewhat disturbing thoughts, I decided

701
01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:40.960
to focus on preparing material and planning
for the next day. That very morning,

702
01:02:42.079 --> 01:02:46.840
while I was asleep, a disturbing
incident abruptly interrupted my rest. I

703
01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:52.039
woke up startled by heavy knocks on
the window. I thought it might be

704
01:02:52.159 --> 01:02:58.960
someone making a joke or maybe needing
help, but when I got up and

705
01:02:59.079 --> 01:03:02.119
looked there was no one out there
act. Then I walked up to the

706
01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:07.320
window to see better what was happening
and through the glass I saw a shadow

707
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:14.679
moving quickly across the school court.
This is because the house where I was

708
01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:19.840
staying was literally next to the school
and the school didn' t have a

709
01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:22.920
fence. That' s why I
had a view of the school court.

710
01:03:22.519 --> 01:03:29.320
The shadow disappeared in the darkness of
the night as quickly as it had appeared

711
01:03:29.400 --> 01:03:34.760
with the heart, beating a thousand
and a deep feeling of fear I decided

712
01:03:34.800 --> 01:03:37.960
to close the curtain and walk away
from the window. I looked at the

713
01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:43.960
clock and dialed one in the morning, trying to calm my nerves and go

714
01:03:43.960 --> 01:03:47.159
back to sleep. I put on
my hearing aids and selected music on my

715
01:03:47.719 --> 01:03:52.719
player, hoping that the sounds would
help distract me from the restlessness I felt.

716
01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:57.960
Finally, after a while, I
managed to fall asleep again the feeling

717
01:03:57.960 --> 01:04:01.400
of restlessness. I' m not
sure she left it at all. The

718
01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:06.920
next morning I woke up when I
heard desperate screams from a lady asking for

719
01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:13.639
help. The community quickly approached and
I did not approach I immediately found out

720
01:04:13.679 --> 01:04:17.960
that a tragic accident had occurred.
A little boy had fallen on a nearby

721
01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:25.159
wheelhouse and drowned. This event plunged
the Community into deep sadness and for reasons

722
01:04:25.199 --> 01:04:30.280
that it did not understand. I
noticed that people began to show themselves distant

723
01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:35.280
with me, avoiding even greeting me. With the passing of days. The

724
01:04:35.360 --> 01:04:43.199
situation at school also began to deteriorate. It originally had a group of twenty

725
01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:47.519
- five children from the first three
grades and another twenty from fourth to sixth

726
01:04:47.519 --> 01:04:54.800
grades, but attendance declined dramatically to
just six students. The only person who

727
01:04:54.840 --> 01:05:00.559
kept talking to me was the lady
who had previously taken me food. One

728
01:05:00.719 --> 01:05:06.119
afternoon while planning to convene a meeting
with parents to discuss the situation, the

729
01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:13.599
lady confided something disturbing to me.
People in the village were saying that I

730
01:05:13.679 --> 01:05:19.679
had brought misfortune to their community.
These words left me deeply concerned and bewildered.

731
01:05:21.239 --> 01:05:27.159
Never in my life had I faced
an accusation of such magnitude and much

732
01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:31.400
less in a place where I had
arrived with the intention of helping and teaching

733
01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:35.679
the. Lady warned me to walk
carefully, because according to her, the

734
01:05:35.760 --> 01:05:42.360
people of the place could be quite
peculiar and superstitions were deeply rooted. Between

735
01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:46.159
them. I don' t like
the way things were getting. I was

736
01:05:46.440 --> 01:05:50.719
actually getting worried. I couldn'
t stop thinking about it all afternoon.

737
01:05:53.320 --> 01:05:56.679
Already at night I realized that I
no longer had coffee and I couldn'

738
01:05:56.679 --> 01:06:00.599
t sleep without having a cup.
I had to go out to buy.

739
01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:05.559
In the place there was only one
store and I had to walk five minutes

740
01:06:05.920 --> 01:06:09.880
to get there already. When I
came back, I began to feel strange

741
01:06:09.920 --> 01:06:14.599
the atmosphere to start at the place
had not lit up. The only light

742
01:06:14.639 --> 01:06:18.119
I had was on the phone and, for my bad luck, the battery

743
01:06:18.239 --> 01:06:25.920
ran out quickly. As I walked
through the darkness that enveloped the path I

744
01:06:26.360 --> 01:06:31.280
felt a disturbing presence behind me.
I tried to calm down, but the

745
01:06:31.280 --> 01:06:35.840
fear was stronger, right at that
moment, when I felt most vulnerable.

746
01:06:36.239 --> 01:06:43.280
I heard someone uttering the word Master
alarmed. I turned to see where the

747
01:06:43.360 --> 01:06:46.039
sound came from and, to my
horror, I saw something posed on the

748
01:06:46.119 --> 01:06:50.480
branch of a nearby tree. His
eyes shone with an intense white and he

749
01:06:50.599 --> 01:06:57.199
uttered sounds as if he were biting
something barely illuminated by the moonlight. The

750
01:06:57.239 --> 01:07:01.239
outline of the figure was grotesque coorl
lono faster than I could hear how that

751
01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:06.639
creature followed me along the path terror
drove me and I did not stop until

752
01:07:06.679 --> 01:07:12.400
I went into the house. Once
inside I secured all the doors and windows

753
01:07:12.559 --> 01:07:15.880
trying to protect myself from whatever had
haunted me in a state of panic.

754
01:07:16.760 --> 01:07:21.719
I hid under the bed, exhausted
by fear and race. I fell asleep

755
01:07:21.800 --> 01:07:29.679
under the bed. My rest was
interrupted at dawn by sounds of scratches on

756
01:07:29.679 --> 01:07:34.079
the walls of the house. Suddenly
I saw my backpack get up with a

757
01:07:34.199 --> 01:07:41.119
hairy, grotesque hand. Something was
on the bed right above me. I

758
01:07:41.199 --> 01:07:45.360
couldn' t see it clearly,
but I felt her presence. The creature

759
01:07:45.440 --> 01:07:48.320
was breathing heavily and moving from one
side to the other on the bed.

760
01:07:48.800 --> 01:07:55.000
As if looking for me in my
despair, I bent my head and covered

761
01:07:55.079 --> 01:07:58.920
my face with my arms praying that
he would not find me. I felt

762
01:07:59.039 --> 01:08:04.239
an indescribable terror when the creature bowed
to me and whispered master with a voice

763
01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:10.440
I could never forget. It was
a tone that iced the blood, one

764
01:08:10.519 --> 01:08:15.280
that no human being could imitate.
At that moment of sheer fear, I

765
01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:19.840
felt like something like a claw gently
brushed my hair. I began to cry,

766
01:08:20.680 --> 01:08:26.079
unable to contain fear. The creature
withdrew a little bit and when I

767
01:08:26.239 --> 01:08:30.560
finally raised my head, I could
only see his ankles and feet, which

768
01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:36.560
were covered with thick hair his nails
were long yellow and disproportionately large. When

769
01:08:36.640 --> 01:08:43.159
that creature began to destroy everything I
had inside the house. I cornered as

770
01:08:43.239 --> 01:08:46.800
much as I could. While this
was happening, I heard the lady who

771
01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:53.600
used to bring me food knocking on
the door urgently and at that moment the

772
01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:58.479
monster began to emit strange noises as
if she was thundering her jaws threateningly.

773
01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:04.880
Suddenly, men broke into the house, pushing the door hard quickly. I

774
01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:11.560
crawled under the bed and was told
to leave the house immediately. They took

775
01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:15.920
me to another very upset place.
I asked what was inside the house.

776
01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:21.159
What the group of men explained to
me was that what was inside was a

777
01:09:21.319 --> 01:09:27.640
nahual. My mind couldn' t
process that information. I really couldn'

778
01:09:27.720 --> 01:09:31.319
t believe everything they were telling me. But because reality was reality, it

779
01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:38.840
didn' t matter if I couldn' t assimilate it. That night I

780
01:09:38.880 --> 01:09:42.840
had to sleep at someone' s
house already in the morning I went to

781
01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:47.319
pack things and had to leave the
place. Since then. I do not

782
01:09:47.359 --> 01:10:02.159
accept jobs in places that are very
remote from the urbanization. Tale written and

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adapted by Ramiro contreras