I broke into a house in Coyoacán to steal, but found a blind girl tied to a chair. She whispered, “Did my mom come back to sell me again?” I decided to steal her back instead. As we reached the front door, heavy footsteps echoed from the dark hallway, and a voice growled, “Who is in there?”…

and a blind, terrified child anchoring me to the spot.

As the giant raised the steel pipe, moonlight glinting off the metal, I realized we were trapped in a dead end.

Chapter 3: The Alleyway and the Awakening

For a suspended, horrifying heartbeat, I accepted that our lives were destined to end on the cold concrete of this obscure Coyoacán alleyway.

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