THEY LOCKED YOU AWAY SO YOUR SISTER COULD MARRY TH…

nearly drops the pot.

Francisco’s eyes warm.

“You are sharper than you appeared behind the column.”

“I was trying to be invisible.”

“And now?”

You look at your mother.

“I am reconsidering.”

That evening, another rider arrives from Oaxaca.

Your mother receives him in the courtyard, but you hear enough.

The convent carriage will come within two days.

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