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Hi, this is Christina and Carmen and this is another
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episode of Spooky Tells a book Club. Oh and Milo's here, Yes,
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Milo's behind Carman. If you're on watching on YouTube, you'll
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see Milo's head and his little ears just stood up.
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So cute. Anyway, Yeah, this is not a regular episode.
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It is a book Club episode. Book Club, book Club,
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book Club, book Club. We're holding our books and moving
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them up and down. Yeah, so our book Club episode
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on Binata. By and in case this is anyone's first
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book Club episode, this is not spoiler free. Only the
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initial summary. We give a spoiler free after that. After
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that we're gonna go through the entire plot. Yeah, you
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know how like there's movie recap, this is like a
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book recap. That's how we do our book Club episodes.
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We do a little short synopsis, like the one you
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read when you buy the book, the one actually in
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the back back of the book. We're gonna read that.
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Then we're going to do a recap of the book.
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We opine a little bit throughout the recap. Throughout the recap,
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we give our thoughts on certain parts. We read quotes
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that we really like. Yeah, at the end of the recap,
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we go through the discussion questions that were sent out
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to everyone, which actually nobody answered this time. But you
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know what, it's a busy time of year. You're right,
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you're right, and it's okay people, it's okay if you didn't,
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I know, people read it. Oh, it's okay if you
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don't answer any questions. Yeah, we just like reading them.
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But it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Yeah, I love
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reading their answers. Yeah. But you know what I forgive
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everyone today at the time of recording, it's been a
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rough it's been a rough day. We won't get into it,
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but we are recording in the sixth Yeah, so once
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you hear the date, you'll know why. It's been a
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rough day for a lot of us, a lot of yeah,
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a lot of people. And that's why we're just gonna
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we're just getting together and talking about a book, you know. Yeah,
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because in times of turmoil, times of difficulties, we're just
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to keep telling our little ghost stories in these times,
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We're just going to keep telling our little ghost stories
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and reading our little horror books and just continuing on
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being little as spooky bitches. But the real life horror
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is every day. Yeah, and so we're just going to
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escape into our ghostly horrors. When I tell you I've
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been reading NonStop this whole year is because this whole
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year has been awful for me. But and you know,
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yesterday was just more awful on top of the already
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awfulness that I've been going through. And that's why I
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read almost sixty something books this year, and that's why
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I've watched so many shows The Wonking Dad eleven seasons
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of The Wonking Dead and now this Dixon is real.
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But also list leading to community, like there's no need
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to despair. You know, we have each other, we do Okay, yes,
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so you want to read the back of the book. Yeah,
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this is our only spoiler free section. We're reading the
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back of the book. The synopsis is over. Spoilers galore. Okay,
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they were worshiped by our ancestors. Now they're forgotten. Soon
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they'll make us remember it was supposed to be the
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perfect summer. Okay. Sorry. This whole time I was reading
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the book, I read Godman like in Spanish, but I
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never say my name is Spanish unless I'm talking in Spanish.
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That made me laugh. That is true. The whole time
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I was like what if this was actually Carmen? What
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if she No? I want to be this honestly. Okay,
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we'll get into it. We'll get it, It'll get it. Okay.
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Godman Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the renovation of
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an ancient abbey. Her daughters, Isle and Luna, too young
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to be left alone in New York, join her, and
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what Godman hopes is a chance for them to connect
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with their roots. Then an accident at the worksite unerts
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a stash of rare, centuries old artifacts. The disaster costs
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got Mean her job, cutting the family trip short, but
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something malevolent and unexplainable follows him home to New York,
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stalking the Sanchez family and heralding a coming catastrophe, and
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it may already be too late to escape what's been awakened.
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Dunt dun, dum dum, perfect right on key and from
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now on spoilers. Okay, Oh you know what, Okay, let
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me just read the nose of the Amazon, because it's different.
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It's a little bit different. Yeah, So a head full
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of Ghosts meets Hereditary in have you seen? Have you
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read a head full of Ghosts? I have not seen
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that I thought it was a book. Yeah, I know
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it is a book. I said, it's because The Hereditary
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is a movie. A headful of Ghosts is I kept
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seeing a head full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic, which, honestly,
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it's nothing like Mexican Gothic. It's nothing like either book,
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and I just wish they would just say something different. Yeah,
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it's it's like the other one is a possession story,
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and I guess that's then and involves a girl and
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and a family, So I guess in those ways, it's
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a nosense in that sense, nobody in the sense that Yeah. So,
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Carmen Sanchez is back in her home country of Mexico,
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overseeing the renovation of an ancient cathedral into a boutique hotel.
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Her teen daughters, isl and Luna are with her for
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the summer and left to fill their afternoons and supervised
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in a foreign city. The locals treat the sancha's a
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woman like outsiders, while Carmen's contractors openly define sabotage her work.
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After a disastrous accident at the consertion site, nearly interests Luna,
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Carmen's had enough. They're leaving back in New York, Luna
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beg exactly strange and only is notices the chilling changes
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that are happening to her younger sister. But it might
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be too late for the Sanchez family to escape what's
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been awakened. So some parts are different, parts are similar.
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I feel like that's not right. That's the reason. Not right.
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She doesn't leave because she has enough. She leaves, They
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take her off of the job. This is what Goodreads said,
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and they all notice the creepiness that she, like is said,
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is not the only one that I'm sooner than others?
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Yeah yeah, yeah. Some excuse it as something else, but
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like to they excuse it, but they notice it. Okay,
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let's fa to it. Let's get it into your recap.
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Yeah yeah, okay. So the book starts with the prologue.
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Said in the past, Oh my god, that prologue was amazing.
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It was. Yes, I had me hooked just from there,
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you know, immediately hooked. Yeah, yeah, I was. You know
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what it reminded me of, Sorry, should I finish before No? No,
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this is our book club. We do what we want.
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Go on. Well, it reminded me of doesn't the haunting
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Alejandra start off with the prologue that's similar like in
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the past. Yes, yes, that's what reminded me of Yeah, okay,
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now you can go ahead. That's okay. Yeah, again, amazing prologue.
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So as you read, you realize we're not in modern Mexico.
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We're at the fall of the Orhico today. In the
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book there or in the prologue, they're talking about how
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locals are dying from either the conquest or diseases that
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the Friars are immune to because they're bitches because they
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brought them. Yeah, exactly, precisely. Cemente and the Friar are
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forcing children to recite lave Maria the prayer. Then one
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of the friars tells an indigenous child that is the
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translator for the rest of them. I think it was
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a man. Oh, I thought it was another. They said
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just a translator, and I assumed there was a trial.
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I assume there was a man. So interesting, Yeah, okay,
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someone the translator. He the friar tells the translator, whoever
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breaks the piata gets a price. And I'm going to
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read this part from the book because it's too good.
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So where this is pat that tell them to strike
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it milkiades, that's the friar said to the interpreter, and
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whoever breaks it gets a price. The other friar sneaker
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like little fucking bitches. Sorry I edit that on. Amused
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by the child's realization of what he was being asked
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to do. Tell him it's a game shortly, the boy said, anxiously.
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The child turned to the clergyman, white eyed, and then
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turned back to the rest of the children, Not daring
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to look at the pot. He his teeth as his
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shoulders heaved and began to cry melgia. This pushed him
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toward the pot, trying to make him hold the stick.
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The interpreter follows, suit yelling and telling him, Oh, you
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know what, I think you're right, it is a man. Yeah.
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The interpreter follows, suit yelling and telling him, and I
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want to strike it. The children shrieked, I can't, I shouldn't.
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It's an offering. It can't just be spilled. The boy
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holding the stick repeated again and again. The interpreter translated.
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The friar slapped the boy's head and called another child
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older than the first, forcing the stick into his hands,
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hit it down it or I'll have you beaten dead
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right there, Melgialis said. The boy swung and connected with
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the pot, immediately dropping the stick, hoping that he had
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fulfilled the request. But the friar continued to shout and
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grab the stick from the ground, showing it back into
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the boy's hands, pressing firmly so he won't drop it again.
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And so he keeps hitting the pot. And this this
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isn't what the piatas were meant for. There's supposed to
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be a sacrifice, not to you know, break in this manner.
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I'm gonna skip ahead a little bit, okay, So when
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he does the final strike, the pinata, which is like
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a clay pot, it's not the pingata as we know today,
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but the pinata cracks and breaks and there's, like, let
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me read this, flesh entrails and a deep break in
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the syrup of coagulated blood poured from the shattered base
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of the pinata. The shrieks of children grew louder, watching
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and wailing in their hopelessness. Can you fucking imagine that
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you're breaking a piata? And literal, what are they putting
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in there? I thought that's what they put to like
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for their sacrifice or yeah, they're not, but they're not
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meant to be broken. So that's why, right, Yeah, but
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can you I just you're breaking a piata and yeah,
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this falls out. Yeah, it's horrifying. This is like the
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the whites are taking what they're supposed to be sacrificed
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and just doing whatever they want. Like they're like corrupting
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this ritual, this cultural like spiritual ritual. They're just fucking
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it up. Yeah, with no regard or care, like exactly. Yeah,
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And so the Friar Melkaddis he turned back to the
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group of kids and he tells them you'll find that
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God doesn't ask for blood and viscera, none of these
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barbaric offerings your ancestors gave. But then he turns around
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and he beats this kid to death. Horrible, and I
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wonder what is more barbaric? No, you know, it was
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so creepy too, Like he says before it's before he
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beats him up right, Yeah, he says, the Almighty only
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wants your soul. Yeah that's creepy. I'm sorry, that's yeah,
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that's it's horrifying. Yeah. So there's another young boy that
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refuses to break the next pot, and that's the boy
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that gets beat to death by Melkaddis and nobody stops him. Yeah.
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When the sister of this boy tries to stop them,
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the same friar tells her, don't worry, child, the dogs
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will eat him, so he will finally be of some use.
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He'll return to the arms of one of your horrid gods.
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Then we learn that this little girl, her name is
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kit Sally, which will come back. Yeah, and she's apparently
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quite the troublemaker want to tie her up and she
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manages to run and they are chasing her. Then the
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same friar goes back to his room at the abbey.
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When he walks into his room there, I'm reading this
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from the book. When he walks into his room at
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the abbey, he like, here's something and so he's like, hello,
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who's there? And this is from the book. A terrible
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pale face, skeletal and eye lists emerged from the shadow
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near skinless, what flesh and maintained, hung tattered and decaying
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from its visage like ribbons. The imagery Oh yeah, its
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body unrevealed. The face drew nearer to the fryar as
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its neck extended farther and farther. Sit back horrified, his
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breath catching in his throat, asking his God for protection.
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Just reminds me of the aparment. We always yes, no
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God here whatever say. Worst line ever, so screapy, I
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mean creepy, I come whatever, I come by scary and
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creepy and screepy. You know what, should we start saying that? No? No, no, no, no,
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I don't like it. I mean you could say it
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if you want. I don't know, Like screepy. Stop trying
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to make screepy happen. It's not gonna happen. And the
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Friar is pretty much killed by this entity in his room.
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I was so scared this, Like immediately you're like, what
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the hell? Yeah, that's the prologue. That's not even starts
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right off the bat, right off the bat, and then
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we get to chapter one. We meet Carmen and her
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two daughters. Eleven year old Luna, we meet the fam, Yes,
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the fam, sixteen year old Isel. They're in Tulancingo, is Ago, Mexico,
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far from their hometown of New York. Right away we
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learned they're there because of Carmen's work. El the sixteen
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year old Little Brady, six year old it's Mexico. She's
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such a you know what. It seems that they don't
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know Spanish either, right or do they? It seems I
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think they know it a little bit, like a tiny amount. Yeah, well,
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I think they know more Spanish. But she refuses to
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tea Spanish because he said, the younger one is communicating
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with all the merchants and stuff. Okay, so, okay, so
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they know Spanish just in pace. Maybe they're having a
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harder time because they speak way less Spanish, but no,
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they're You're right, because Luna is chatting with everyone. Yeah, okay,
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so she's just been sixteen and very bratty. I don't
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know happened. It happens, Yeah, it really does. So we
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learned that they're there because of you know, her work.
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You said, doesn't want to be there. Luna is having
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a great time learning, absorbing, like a little curious child