"1901. {\i1\fsp-0.5}rules over the area. {\i1\fsp-0.5}but her husband is unable to make her pregnant. to no avail. {\i1\fsp-0.5}does nothing to prevent this." "some gypsy performers arrive in Arga" "{\i1\fsp-0.5}and put on their show." "{\i1\fsp-0.5}The marchioness is attracted by the gypsy knife thrower. {\i1\fsp-0.5}to kidnap him and bring him to her. {\i1\fsp-0.5}she straddles him and obtains his seed." "sensing that she has finally succeeded {\i1\fsp-0.5}she leads a group of servants who destroy the camp" "{\i1\fsp-0.5}and kill all the occupants: and children." "with her dying breath" "{\i1\fsp-0.5}lays a curse upon the marchioness." "the marchioness gives birth to a handsome son." "he grows up strong and healthy. {\i1\fsp-0.5}the curse takes effect..." "{\i1\fsp-0.5}and evil falls on Arga." "1500)\b1\fscx240\fscy200\cH807D94}Attack of the Werewolves" "it's Grandma." "Where are you?" "{\fsp-0.5}I must be about 12 miles away." "Nearly there." "{\i1\fsp-0.5}That house has been empty for 20 years." "It's probably in ruins." "{\i1\fsp-0.5}What are you going to do there?" "The place is huge." "I'll be fine." "{\i1\fsp-0.5}I don't see why they're bothering with that nonsense." "{\fsp-0.5}It's a tribute." "{\fsp-0.5}I must be the only famous person who's ever been there." "{\i1\fsp-0.5}Don't be a moron!" "You're not famous." "they think a writer is famous." "and no one read it." "and I'm your only grandchild." "{\fsp-0.5}It's cool to be given the freedom of the village." "{\fsp-0.5}Mum and Dad would've been pleased." "and neither should you." "{\fsp-0.5}You haven't been there since you were 15." "too; that's bad land." "I'm going to stay a while and try to write another novel." "{\i1\fsp-0.5}What?" "I can't hear you." "{\fsp-0.5}Grandma!" "Can you hear me?" "no pissing." "{\fsp-0.5}Jesus Christ!" "{\fsp-0.5}Shit... not in here either." "in this room." "{\fsp-0.5}My whole adolescence." "{\fsp-0.5}The times I've jerked off in this bed." "{\fsp-0.5}And this is the attic." "{\fsp-0.5}It terrified me as a kid." "{\fsp-0.5}Go on." "you coward." "{\fsp-0.5}See?" "{\fsp-0.5}There's nothing here." "{\fsp-0.5}Coward." "{\fsp-0.5}Not a thing." "{\fsp-0.5}Great!" "Mice." "{\fsp-0.5}Drop that." "It's not hygienic." "{\fsp-0.5}I used to get so scared in here." "{\fsp-0.5}Kids are too much." "{\fsp-0.5}Their imagination..." "{\fsp-0.5}I remember one day... {\fsp-0.5}I've never been more scared in my life." "my pal here when I was kid." "{\fsp-0.5}He told me a story about a witch who lived in this wardrobe for being nosy." "{\fsp-0.5}Fuck me!" "and I was 13." "{\fsp-0.5}I slept with my parents for the next week" "{\fsp-0.5}because of the fucking witch." "{\fsp-0.5}What?" "{\fsp-0.5}What do you smell?" "The witch?" "dummy." "{\fsp-0.5}You're a wimp." "{\fsp-0.5}Fucking dust." "{\fsp-0.5}Your lungs!" "I want your lungs!" "{\fsp-0.5}But first I want you to possess me!" "{\fsp-0.5}Possess me!" "{\fsp-0.5}You bastard!" "Calisto." "You nearly scared me to death!" "{\fsp-0.5}You wet yourself?" "I didn't know that." "{\fsp-0.5}Or that you slept with your parents." "{\fsp-0.5}Go to hell!" "How did you get in here?" "of course." "{\fsp-0.5}I've been here for hours." "I thought you weren't coming." "the village drag queen?" "{\fsp-0.5}It was my grandma's." "just in case." "{\fsp-0.5}I don't see many pilgrims." "Isn't this on the Camino de Santiago?" "but... {\fsp-0.5}I guess they take a different route." "{\fsp-0.5}You got a girlfriend?" "{\fsp-0.5}Yes." "{\fsp-0.5}That is..." "Not anymore." "{\fsp-0.5}She left you?" "the dog's hers." "and you got stuck with the mutt." "{\fsp-0.5}What a bitch!" "{\fsp-0.5}It wasn't like that." "a bit." "{\fsp-0.5}How are you doing?" "{\fsp-0.5}Fine." "and that's what I do." "{\fsp-0.5}Hello!" "{\fsp-0.5}Did you get married?" "me?" "{\fsp-0.5}No." "{\fsp-0.5}All the girls here went to Madrid." "{\fsp-0.5}There aren't even many sheep left." "{\fsp-0.5}How long are you staying?" "{\fsp-0.5}As long as necessary." "I want to write a novel." "{\fsp-0.5}Want to know what it's about?" "not me... we'll see each other." "{\fsp-0.5}I'm here to work." "It's not a holiday." "we'll see each other." "{\fsp-0.5}Sure." "110.735)\frx4\fry358}Return to My Roots A Novel by Tomas Mariño" "129.265)}Chapter One" "{\fsp-0.5}Hello!" "{\fsp-0.5}You're Mariño." "Rosa's grandson." "{\fsp-0.5}Yes." "{\fsp-0.5}And who am I?" "damn it!" "{\fsp-0.5}Don't you know me?" "Don't you remember me?" "of course!" "you're all grown up!" "You're a man now." "{\fsp-0.5}Goddamn!" "everyone!" "{\fsp-0.5}This young man is Rosa's grandson." "the writer." "{\fsp-0.5}It's little Tommy." "{\fsp-0.5}He's a fine boy now." "{\fsp-0.5}I had you in my arms when you were no size." "{\fsp-0.5}The times I wiped your ass!" "{\fsp-0.5}Don't you remember me?" "{\fsp-0.5}I'm Nica." "{\fsp-0.5}Shit..." "I don't." "{\fsp-0.5}But how I could forget?" "{\fsp-0.5}Come along." "{\fsp-0.5}What's it to be?" "please." "{\fsp-0.5}We don't have tonic." "We have Pitusa." "{\fsp-0.5}I'm sorry?" "soda water." "have a real drink." "{\fsp-0.5}You're a man now." "it's not that." "{\fsp-0.5}I've given it up." "{\fsp-0.5}Given what up?" "{\fsp-0.5}Alcohol." "{\fsp-0.5}For what?" "{\fsp-0.5}But you're in a bar." "{\fsp-0.5}There's loads of alcohol." "two orujos." "how do you think the village looks?" "eh?" "{\fsp-0.5}Yes." "{\fsp-0.5}Evolution hasn't made many inroads here." "has it?" "{\fsp-0.5}All the better. you know. you can call anyone." "is the mayor here?" "{\fsp-0.5}I was wondering about the ceremony on Friday... {\fsp-0.5}He's standing right here!" "{\fsp-0.5}The UPA candidate." "and re-elected four times." "{\fsp-0.5}Don't worry about Friday." "We don't bother about ceremonies." "and that's it." "{\fsp-0.5}But what about the guests?" "someone important?" "the very minimum." "their mayor and" "{\fsp-0.5}the religious authority." "{\fsp-0.5}I didn't know..." "I welcome you." "pal!" "{\fsp-0.5}What's wrong?" "{\fsp-0.5}Why the hell are you here?" "remember?" "{\fsp-0.5}It's two in the afternoon!" "{\fsp-0.5}The dog pissed on the floor." "if you don't take him out...!" "{\fsp-0.5}Why do people in villages have to shout?" "{\fsp-0.5}I don't know." "you've got one hell of a hangover!" "{\fsp-0.5}Don't deny it!" "{\fsp-0.5}It's not a hangover." "I think my back's broken." "{\fsp-0.5}I read your book." "{\fsp-0.5}Did you like it?" "{\fsp-0.5}Yes." "but yes." "{\fsp-0.5}Why heavy?" "but... {\fsp-0.5}500 pages of two guys talking about a bottle of Pacharan isn't a barrel of laughs!" "{\fsp-0.5}It was a metaphor for alcoholism." "if it was a metaphor... {\fsp-0.5}But I liked it." "you know." "things like that." "since when is my uncle a priest?" "{\fsp-0.5}I knew nothing about it." "he isn't." "and that was it." "{\fsp-0.5}He's a bit of a religious nut." "{\fsp-0.5}They all are." "{\fsp-0.5}Why did the priest leave?" "{\fsp-0.5}Tell the dog to be careful." "you'll never find him." "{\fsp-0.5}Vito!" "Come away from there!" "{\fsp-0.5}Remember the stories they told to terrify us? {\fsp-0.5}so we wouldn't go down and look for the anarchists' rifles." "{\fsp-0.5}They still find shit from the Civil War all over the village." "a guy even found dynamite." "{\fsp-0.5}Did it still work?" "{\fsp-0.5}I'd be surprised." "{\fsp-0.5}I remember a story my grandfather told me about a barn." "{\fsp-0.5}He said a monster lived in there." "and I was never to go near the place." "{\fsp-0.5}And I believed him!" "{\fsp-0.5}I think it was near here." "{\fsp-0.5}Let's see if we can find it." "{\fsp-0.5}Forget it." "{\fsp-0.5}It'll be fun." "forget it." "{\fsp-0.5}Don't tell me you believe all that rubbish!" "this place isn't like the city." "{\fsp-0.5}The people are different. too." "{\fsp-0.5}You shouldn't laugh at them." "{\fsp-0.5}Vito!" "No!" "{\fsp-0.5}Where the hell are you?" "{\fsp-0.5}Fucking dog!" "{\fsp-0.5}This must be that old barn." "{\fsp-0.5}What was that?" "{\fsp-0.5}There must be a dog in there." "{\fsp-0.5}Is that it?" "{\fsp-0.5}Or is it a bitch and you're horny?" "{\fsp-0.5}Dummy." "let's go." "I'm sick of you." "boy." "{\fsp-0.5}Animals aren't allowed at this ceremony." "but that's all." "it's great to see you!" "{\fsp-0.5}What the hell are you doing here?" "you've got a mega-mansion!" "{\fsp-0.5}Why are you here?" "{\fsp-0.5}To pay what you owe me?" "{\fsp-0.5}I'm here for your tribute." "Am I your publisher or not?" "{\fsp-0.5}You've got a nerve." "{\fsp-0.5}Has my lawyer called you?" "{\fsp-0.5}That hurt." "{\fsp-0.5}Why use lawyers when you and I can sort it out?" "and about what you're writing." "{\fsp-0.5}Over my dead—" "{\fsp-0.5}"Next few days"?" "What do you mean?" "{\fsp-0.5}I'll stay here to see if we can sort things out." "{\fsp-0.5}Stay where?" "{\fsp-0.5}Here!" "There's loads of room." "I needed to get out of Madrid for a few days." "{\fsp-0.5}I've got a few problems there; nothing serious." "{\fsp-0.5}If I don't receive the summons and the cops don't find me... {\fsp-0.5}I even threw away my phone." "{\fsp-0.5}Have you got satellite TV?" "{\fsp-0.5}Vito!" "Inside." "Come on." "right?" "{\fsp-0.5}Village girls really turn me on." "{\fsp-0.5}Did you bring the whole family?" "what are you doing here?" "{\fsp-0.5}Isn't the party in the village hall?" "{\fsp-0.5}Who's that?" "anyway." "{\fsp-0.5}What the fuck...?" "{\fsp-0.5}Put me down." "What is this?" "wake up!" "{\fsp-0.5}Wake up!" "wake up!" "please!" "{\fsp-0.5}Untie me!" "Come on!" "{\fsp-0.5}Are you all stupid? {\fsp-0.5}the curse that has condemned our village and its people for the last 100 years" "{\fsp-0.5}will end." "{\fsp-0.5}What curse?" "What the hell are you talking about? {\fsp-0.5}will free us now from evil!" "{\fsp-0.5}Let us pray." "{\fsp-0.5}Whose blood?" "you've got me terrified." "{\fsp-0.5}I'm wetting myself." "You're doing a fucking great job!" "please!" "{\fsp-0.5}Mario!" "{\fsp-0.5}Fucking wake up!" "{\fsp-0.5}What are you going to do?" "don't be stupid!" "my boy." "think of Jesus." "{\fsp-0.5}His sacrifice saved humanity." "{\fsp-0.5}Yours will save a village." "{\fsp-0.5}Sacrifice...?" "{\fsp-0.5}What a whack!" "It could have killed me." "{\fsp-0.5}What's happened?" "Where are we?" "{\fsp-0.5}I think they threw us into a cave." "{\fsp-0.5}Who?" "{\fsp-0.5}The villagers." "why?" "{\fsp-0.5}I don't know!" "too!" "unless they invested in audio books for the deaf." "{\fsp-0.5}You got a lighter?" "{\fsp-0.5}Look." "It's like a church candle or something." "{\fsp-0.5}Shit!" "{\fsp-0.5}That's a weird candle!" "{\fsp-0.5}It's fucking dynamite!" "{\fsp-0.5}Why's it here?" "{\fsp-0.5}From the Civil War!" "a time tunnel?" "{\fsp-0.5}Just stand still!" "{\fsp-0.5}Take this." "{\fsp-0.5}Hold it." "{\fsp-0.5}Don't touch anything!" "{\fsp-0.5}Don't bark." "{\fsp-0.5}Vito..." "Find Tomas." "{\fsp-0.5}Where is he?" "{\fsp-0.5}Find him!" "Vito!" "{\fsp-0.5}Not that way!" "{\fsp-0.5}Not that way!" "Find Tomas!" "{\fsp-0.5}Hit me." "{\fsp-0.5}What?" "{\fsp-0.5}Hit me." "{\fsp-0.5}They drugged me." "I can still feel the effect." "{\fsp-0.5}Hit me." "It'll clear my head." "{\fsp-0.5}Fuck!" "{\fsp-0.5}Are you stupid?" "{\fsp-0.5}Didn't you say to hit you?" "but not like that!" "Just a smack!" "{\fsp-0.5}Sorry." "Should I do it again?" "forget it." "I'm all right." "{\fsp-0.5}Be careful with that." "{\fsp-0.5}Glad to help." "{\fsp-0.5}Did they say why they did this?" "the blood of the Mariños... {\fsp-0.5}I didn't understand." "I was out of it." "{\fsp-0.5}Your fucking family!" "But why me?" "{\fsp-0.5}That's what you get for coming!" "{\fsp-0.5}These must be the tunnels of the old monastery." "I feel safer." "{\fsp-0.5}Your village hospitality leaves a lot to be desired." "you jerk." "{\fsp-0.5}This is creepy." "{\fsp-0.5}I'm shitting myself." "{\fsp-0.5}Jesus Christ!" "Do you realise where we are?" "{\fsp-0.5}I hope you know what you're doing." "{\fsp-0.5}What the hell is that?" "{\fsp-0.5}I don't know." "It looks like... {\fsp-0.5}It looks like a human body or an animal or something." "{\fsp-0.5}It stinks." "a mole or a rabbit... {\fsp-0.5}Shit." "those look like bones." "{\fsp-0.5}Rat bones." "{\fsp-0.5}Too big for a rat." "{\fsp-0.5}Take a closer look." "{\fsp-0.5}You fucking do it." "{\fsp-0.5}It's your village." "{\fsp-0.5}No way!" "Madrid is my village." "not me." "{\fsp-0.5}Asshole!" "{\fsp-0.5}Don't be a wimp!" "{\fsp-0.5}The sack!" "{\fsp-0.5}Let go!" "Get off!" "{\fsp-0.5}Help me!" "{\fsp-0.5}Don't touch it!" "{\fsp-0.5}What is that?" "{\fsp-0.5}Run!" "{\fsp-0.5}Don't look back!" "{\fsp-0.5}This way!" "{\fsp-0.5}The torch!" "{\fsp-0.5}The lighter!" "{\fsp-0.5}Calisto!" "Help us!" "{\fsp-0.5}Do something!" "{\fsp-0.5}Grab on!" "{\fsp-0.5}Pull!" "{\fsp-0.5}Fuck!" "{\fsp-0.5}What the hell was that?" "{\fsp-0.5}Shut up." "The guards will hear you!" "{\fsp-0.5}Where did that monster come from?" "{\fsp-0.5}Shut up!" "{\fsp-0.5}But we're being chased by a two-legged six-foot wolf!" "{\fsp-0.5}Shut up!" "Shut UP!" "{\fsp-0.5}You saw it!" "Those teeth!" "And that stink!" "a smack would have done!" "they'll throw us in there again." "{\fsp-0.5}What if it gets out?" "{\fsp-0.5}I don't think it can." "It's too far down." "come on!" "Vito!" "{\fsp-0.5}Evelio..." "{\fsp-0.5}Evelio!" "{\fsp-0.5}Where the hell are you?" "{\fsp-0.5}What the hell's going on?" "{\fsp-0.5}It's the curse." "{\fsp-0.5}What curse?" "{\fsp-0.5}Your family curse." "the marchioness of Mariño." "{\fsp-0.5}My grandmother's aunt?" "scheming bitch." "but her husband couldn't... a group of gypsies came here." "Travelling performers." "kidnapped him and had him." "{\fsp-0.5}She screwed him?" "{\fsp-0.5}And then killed him." "{\fsp-0.5}Him and the whole caravan." "{\fsp-0.5}Fuck!" "put a curse on your great-grandmother." "{\fsp-0.5}What curse?" "her son would become a wolf" "{\fsp-0.5}and bring death and evil to the village. {\fsp-0.5}then the curse would disappear" "{\fsp-0.5}and the beast would return to its human form. {\fsp-0.5}an even greater evil would fall on the village." "{\fsp-0.5}What a story!" "{\fsp-0.5}It's so bad it's like one of yours." "but you saw it yourselves." "the beast terrorised the village" "{\fsp-0.5}and killed more than 100 people." "they managed to trap it and lock it in the barn." "{\fsp-0.5}Why didn't they kill it?" "{\fsp-0.5}Because of the curse." "{\fsp-0.5}If the gypsy's words weren't fulfilled exactly" "{\fsp-0.5}something much worse would happen." "I never heard about it?" "{\fsp-0.5}It was a secret." "Only the locals know the story." "{\fsp-0.5}So hang on... {\fsp-0.5}and now they invite me here so that thing can eat me." "it's been 100 years." "{\fsp-0.5}Jesus... {\fsp-0.5}This is insane!" "{\fsp-0.5}Why didn't it eat my Uncle Evaristo?" "{\fsp-0.5}He's not a Mariño; he's from your great-grandfather's side." "why didn't it die of hunger?" "{\fsp-0.5}Because they fed it." "{\fsp-0.5}On ham and cabbage?" "{\fsp-0.5}The children!" "They fed it on the village children!" "don't be so stupid!" "{\fsp-0.5}No." "{\fsp-0.5}They threw down any pilgrims who'd got lost." "but you don't see many pilgrims now." "{\fsp-0.5}How long have you known all this?" "{\fsp-0.5}A few years." "My mother told me before she died." "{\fsp-0.5}And you didn't tell me?" "{\fsp-0.5}You'd have let them kill me?" "{\fsp-0.5}I didn't know what they were going to do!" "{\fsp-0.5}I only found out this evening." "{\fsp-0.5}Why didn't you tell me?" "{\fsp-0.5}Why?" "you were my best friend." "and that was it." "nothing!" "{\fsp-0.5}You behaved like a shit." "Why should I worry about you?" "even by keeping silent?" "I didn't know they were going to sacrifice you." "it was too late." "{\fsp-0.5}You're all fucking crazy here!" "{\fsp-0.5}Yes." "I live here." "{\fsp-0.5}The beast ate my grandparents." "They didn't die in a fire like I was told." "too." "not one." "{\fsp-0.5}Why do you think there are only old people here?" "they're sent to the city." "{\fsp-0.5}The people are just protecting Arga." "but I'm calling the police." "{\fsp-0.5}Shit!" "{\fsp-0.5}The phone?" "{\fsp-0.5}Upstairs." "maybe it's silly to call the police." "{\fsp-0.5}Who the hell are you?" "{\fsp-0.5}I'm Mario." "the well-known publisher." "books... {\fsp-0.5}The exchange isn't answering." "{\fsp-0.5}Just as well." "{\fsp-0.5}They know we're friends and that I never wanted to get involved." "{\fsp-0.5}They're probably watching me." "right?" "{\fsp-0.5}Just as well." "too." "{\fsp-0.5}Even more if someone dropped a tombstone on my head." "{\fsp-0.5}It's quite understandable." "{\fsp-0.5}What is it?" "{\fsp-0.5}You're stinking me out!" "Stop it." "{\fsp-0.5}It wasn't me!" "it was Gervasia next door." "{\fsp-0.5}I said it wasn't me!" "{\fsp-0.5}Where are you going?" "Stay here!" "and don't move!" "{\fsp-0.5}But... damn it!" "{\fsp-0.5}Can I talk now?" "{\fsp-0.5}You forgot the cartridges!" "{\fsp-0.5}Shall I bring them down?" "please!" "Go away!" "{\fsp-0.5}No!" "No!" "{\fsp-0.5}Search everywhere." "{\fsp-0.5}What's going on?" "{\fsp-0.5}The beast escaped and killed four people. {\fsp-0.5}which means your friends have escaped." "did you?" "{\fsp-0.5}I warned you to stay out of this." "{\fsp-0.5}They're not my friends." "and I don't even know the other one." "{\fsp-0.5}I don't give a shit about them." "{\fsp-0.5}You can throw them in the river for all I care." "{\fsp-0.5}Why should I care?" "I don't give a damn." "{\fsp-0.5}Vito!" "{\fsp-0.5}Why is that mongrel here?" "{\fsp-0.5}Fucking dog!" "{\fsp-0.5}It's Tomas's." "I found it wandering round." "{\fsp-0.5}I'm keeping it." "Is that a problem?" "{\fsp-0.5}There's no one upstairs." "{\fsp-0.5}No one here either." "{\fsp-0.5}They must be somewhere." "They can't get away." "{\fsp-0.5}We've wrecked their cars and blocked all the exits." "{\fsp-0.5}We'll get them." "{\fsp-0.5}Let's keep searching!" "{\fsp-0.5}What are you doing?" "You're coming with us." "{\fsp-0.5}Don't leave the house." "I'll try to call the police." "but they've disappeared." "{\fsp-0.5}Maybe the beast ate them." "the curse would be broken" "{\fsp-0.5}and the beast wouldn't have attacked last night." "{\fsp-0.5}And where's the beast?" "{\fsp-0.5}Probably back in the barn." "{\fsp-0.5}That's the only safe place it knows." "{\fsp-0.5}Then let's kill it!" "{\fsp-0.5}What about the curse?" "{\fsp-0.5}Maybe it won't happen." "I'm lost." "Which curse?" "{\fsp-0.5}The curse if we don't put an end to the curse." "and now... {\fsp-0.5}Now there's going to be another curse" "{\fsp-0.5}because we haven't put an end to the first curse." "{\fsp-0.5}But we don't know what the curse is." "{\fsp-0.5}Which curse?" "{\fsp-0.5}The second one." "{\fsp-0.5}Shut the fuck up!" "{\fsp-0.5}We've failed." "we've failed." "{\fsp-0.5}So what does a second curse matter?" "it can't be worse than the first one." "{\fsp-0.5}I say we kill the beast." "{\fsp-0.5}It's God's will." "{\fsp-0.5}Who's going to go down?" "{\fsp-0.5}You." "{\fsp-0.5}Like hell!" "{\fsp-0.5}Go down or I'll blow your guts out." "{\fsp-0.5}Who are you?" "has your friend got a thing about sheep?" "{\fsp-0.5}What?" "{\fsp-0.5}Tomas... {\fsp-0.5}Staring at it won't make it work." "{\fsp-0.5}Mind my sandwich!" "{\fsp-0.5}Shut up." "{\fsp-0.5}You're stepping on it!" "{\fsp-0.5}Shut up." "{\fsp-0.5}Shut up." "{\fsp-0.5}Grandma?" "{\fsp-0.5}Tomas!" "{\fsp-0.5}Can you hear me?" "{\fsp-0.5}They want to kill us!" "{\fsp-0.5}Send the police!" "{\i1\fsp-0.5}What?" "I can't hear anything!" "{\fsp-0.5}There's a werewolf here!" "Tell the police!" "{\i1\fsp-0.5}I can't hear you." "{\fsp-0.5}That way." "{\i1\fsp-0.5}Can you hear me?" "{\fsp-0.5}Grandma!" "{\fsp-0.5}Call the police!" "that way!" "be careful!" "{\fsp-0.5}We're in danger!" "You have to help us!" "{\i1\fsp-0.5}What?" "{\fsp-0.5}Shut up!" "{\fsp-0.5}I can't... {\fsp-0.5}Grandma?" "{\fsp-0.5}Shit!" "the pork scratchings!" "{\fsp-0.5}Screw it!" "{\fsp-0.5}Pull me up!" "{\fsp-0.5}There's nobody there." "{\fsp-0.5}That's impossible." "but there's nobody." "{\fsp-0.5}It'll be dark soon." "The beast will attack again." "men and women." "{\fsp-0.5}We'll spend the night together and track it down." "I'll get you out of here." "{\fsp-0.5}Mario!" "{\fsp-0.5}It's me." "{\fsp-0.5}Fuck!" "What about the guards?" "{\fsp-0.5}They left." "There's a curfew until nightfall." "{\fsp-0.5}Did you call the police?" "{\fsp-0.5}I couldn't." "{\fsp-0.5}No signal?" "{\fsp-0.5}Not a bleep." "{\fsp-0.5}Who's the kid?" "{\fsp-0.5}I'm not too sure." "{\fsp-0.5}He was in the cave." "He could be the beast." "{\fsp-0.5}You're raving." "{\fsp-0.5}Are you crazy?" "Why did you bring him here?" "{\fsp-0.5}What else could I do?" "{\fsp-0.5}Fucking kill him!" "Isn't he the beast?" "why don't you kill him?" "shoot him." "Here he is." "don't look at me." "but I sponsor two in Guatemala." "{\fsp-0.5}Or Peru." "{\fsp-0.5}Fuck." "{\fsp-0.5}So what do we do? {\fsp-0.5}will turn into a monster." "{\fsp-0.5}Not to mention that the whole village is out to kill us." "{\fsp-0.5}I've got an idea." "{\fsp-0.5}What?" "{\fsp-0.5}Look... right?" "Einstein!" "Great!" "{\fsp-0.5}So the kid gets to eat me with potatoes on the side?" "the curse doesn't say he has to eat all of you." "{\fsp-0.5}Maybe a finger would do." "{\fsp-0.5}You hear that?" "{\fsp-0.5}It's an interesting idea." "but interesting." "{\fsp-0.5}Have you both gone crazy?" "cut off one of your fingers." "{\fsp-0.5}I've heard we use our thumbs too much." "Or is it the opposite?" "{\fsp-0.5}Just the little one." "{\fsp-0.5}I'll shoot anyone who moves!" "{\fsp-0.5}It isn't loaded." "{\fsp-0.5}Bastard." "whatever... feel free." "What's it to be?" "{\fsp-0.5}Bastards!" "{\fsp-0.5}Let go of me!" "{\fsp-0.5}Calm down!" "{\fsp-0.5}Lots of famous writers have got missing fingers." "Gloria Fuertes." "{\fsp-0.5}What the hell are you saying?" "Let go of me!" "{\fsp-0.5}Cervantes was missing a whole arm!" "{\fsp-0.5}Let go of me!" "{\fsp-0.5}Calm down!" "{\fsp-0.5}There are two ways to do this." "{\fsp-0.5}Nicely or otherwise." "Which is it to be?" "{\fsp-0.5}So it's otherwise." "{\fsp-0.5}You want a drink?" "{\fsp-0.5}No!" "{\fsp-0.5}Wait!" "{\fsp-0.5}Now what is it?" "{\fsp-0.5}Not a finger." "I won't be able to write." "{\fsp-0.5}A toe would be better." "I wouldn't recommend a toe." "to get out of here." "{\fsp-0.5}It'll be hard without a toe." "You don't need your finger to write." "{\fsp-0.5}It might do the readers a favour." "relax." "{\fsp-0.5}Sons of bitches!" "{\fsp-0.5}You're a hero!" "You're saving our lives!" "and... you bastard?" "{\fsp-0.5}Fuck the lot of you!" "{\fsp-0.5}And fuck my great-grandmother and all my ancestors!" "{\fsp-0.5}I guess we give it to the kid." "raw?" "It's a bit creepy." "{\fsp-0.5}You got garlic and parsley?" "{\fsp-0.5}Bring it back!" "{\fsp-0.5}Vito!" "{\fsp-0.5}For fuck's sake!" "{\fsp-0.5}Sorry!" "{\fsp-0.5}Be careful!" "come out of there!" "{\fsp-0.5}He ate the whole thing." "{\fsp-0.5}He didn't even leave a hangnail." "{\fsp-0.5}Son of a bitch!" "{\fsp-0.5}Now what?" "{\fsp-0.5}Roots... you hear?" "{\fsp-0.5}A writer!" "{\fsp-0.5}How the fuck can I write without any fingers?" "{\fsp-0.5}Don't complain." "That guy Hawking writes in a wheelchair." "{\fsp-0.5}Go to hell." "{\fsp-0.5}The dog... give the other finger to the dog." "{\fsp-0.5}And give the kid my balls if you want." "eat it." "{\fsp-0.5}It tastes good." "Eat it." "{\fsp-0.5}Eat it." "{\fsp-0.5}Take it and eat it." "yum." "{\fsp-0.5}It's delicious!" "{\fsp-0.5}Very good!" "it's not that bad." "You're lucky." "{\fsp-0.5}Not many people can say they saw themselves being eaten." "{\fsp-0.5}Hadn't you stopped drinking?" "{\fsp-0.5}The kid ate it all." "{\fsp-0.5}Now what?" "{\fsp-0.5}Well... right?" "but we have to get out of here." "{\fsp-0.5}Everyone is meeting in the bar at 7:30." "so the coast is clear. {\fsp-0.5}and the path behind it leads to the next village." "too." "{\fsp-0.5}I'll make coffee." "{\fsp-0.5}With lots of salt." "{\fsp-0.5}A bit of salt on the tip of a dick." "Delicious." "{\fsp-0.5}Weren't you meeting in the bar?" "{\fsp-0.5}It's closed." "Deaths in the family." "please." "{\fsp-0.5}You can let them go." "{\fsp-0.5}This is the monster." "He was in the cave." "no!" "{\fsp-0.5}Don't do anything to him!" "{\fsp-0.5}We gave him Tomas's finger and he ate it." "{\fsp-0.5}Don't you see?" "so the curse is broken!" "right?" "{\fsp-0.5}We promise." "{\fsp-0.5}I swear by my children." "{\fsp-0.5}How do we know the curse is broken and he won't turn into a beast again?" "I'm not 100 per cent certain." "{\fsp-0.5}We'll have to wait until night-time to find out." "{\fsp-0.5}We'll see if it's true." "{\fsp-0.5}You'd better be right." "{\fsp-0.5}You see?" "What did I tell you?" "{\fsp-0.5}The curse is broken!" "{\fsp-0.5}So it seems." "we'll kill all of you." "you never know." "{\fsp-0.5}And it's best not to leave any witnesses." "{\fsp-0.5}It's God's will." "{\fsp-0.5}What the hell's happening?" "{\fsp-0.5}It's the curse for not breaking the curse!" "{\fsp-0.5}And my fucking finger? {\fsp-0.5}a day after 100 years had passed!" "{\fsp-0.5}One lousy Ola!" "{\fsp-0.5}I'll never visit another village!" "{\fsp-0.5}Screw rural tourism!" "{\fsp-0.5}Grandma!" "hurry!" "{\fsp-0.5}Seat belts on." "{\fsp-0.5}Shit!" "{\fsp-0.5}What are you doing here?" "{\fsp-0.5}I thought something like this might happen." "{\fsp-0.5}You're his grandmother?" "Pleased to meet you." "{\fsp-0.5}The women in your family are too much!" "{\fsp-0.5}Why didn't you tell me?" "{\fsp-0.5}I wasn't sure the curse really existed." "{\fsp-0.5}Watch out!" "aren't I?" "we wouldn't be in this mess!" "fleabag!" "{\fsp-0.5}Shit!" "step on it!" "{\fsp-0.5}You think this is the time for songs?" "{\fsp-0.5}It wasn't me!" "ma'am." "{\fsp-0.5}Just call me Rosa." "{\fsp-0.5}I think we've lost them." "{\fsp-0.5}No!" "No!" "Vito!" "{\fsp-0.5}No!" "wait!" "{\fsp-0.5}Move!" "{\fsp-0.5}Fuck!" "{\fsp-0.5}Shit!" "{\fsp-0.5}Everyone out!" "Run to the house!" "{\fsp-0.5}Close all the windows and shutters!" "{\fsp-0.5}Hurry!" "{\fsp-0.5}Hold on!" "{\fsp-0.5}I'm coming!" "{\fsp-0.5}I think they've gone." "{\fsp-0.5}All closed upstairs." "too." "{\fsp-0.5}They'll be back." "half human." "but they've got a bit of a brain." "{\fsp-0.5}What do we do?" "but they won't come." "{\fsp-0.5}I didn't know what to say." "{\fsp-0.5}How do you explain this without getting put in an asylum?" "{\fsp-0.5}Especially at my age." "{\fsp-0.5}Why are we going to Arga?" "Nothing ever happens there." "{\fsp-0.5}I'll tell you again. we're going to check it out." "{\fsp-0.5}"Might." "{\fsp-0.5}I might win the lottery and you'll never see me again." "{\fsp-0.5}Never again." "{\fsp-0.5}And what's "something"?" "a first communion?" "{\fsp-0.5}Hey... right?" "{\fsp-0.5}Yes." "{\fsp-0.5}Why has nothing happened to you?" "{\fsp-0.5}Well..." "{\fsp-0.5}Bastard!" "Galician wolf!" "{\fsp-0.5}I was fucking joking!" "{\fsp-0.5}So you're a comedian?" "ma'am." "{\fsp-0.5}I wasn't born here." "{\fsp-0.5}My parents were on their honeymoon when I was born." "{\fsp-0.5}But if it was their honeymoon..." "Mario." "{\fsp-0.5}Who is this child?" "he's the marchioness's son." "{\fsp-0.5}You're right." "He's my cousin." "{\fsp-0.5}How do you know?" "{\fsp-0.5}He recognised this." "{\fsp-0.5}It was his mother's." "{\fsp-0.5}The bastards!" "{\fsp-0.5}They've eaten the lights." "{\fsp-0.5}If I win the lottery... isn't it? do you?" "{\fsp-0.5}And Cuéntame cémo pasé is on tonight." "{\fsp-0.5}What did I tell you?" "Nothing's going on here." "no lights in the houses." "{\fsp-0.5}It's odd." "{\fsp-0.5}Maybe they're all asleep." "{\fsp-0.5}What the hell is that?" "but I'd swear these are... {\fsp-0.5}They're werewolves!" "{\fsp-0.5}But werewolves don't exist!" "{\fsp-0.5}That's what you say." "{\fsp-0.5}A lot of literature from the turn of the 19th century was based on the existence of werewolves." "Poe and others" "{\fsp-0.5}weren't inspired by reality and not by imagination?" "Why not?" "{\fsp-0.5}Do you think you're on Oprah's fucking Book Club?" "{\fsp-0.5}What are we going to do?" "naturally." "{\fsp-0.5}Holy shit!" "{\fsp-0.5}Take it easy." "{\fsp-0.5}Lower your weapon." "good evening." "with your hands over your heads." "boys." "{\fsp-0.5}What are you doing?" "{\fsp-0.5}We don't know if they're violent." "{\fsp-0.5}We'll give them the benefit of the doubt." "{\fsp-0.5}Doubt resolved." "They're not peaceful." "they're not." "Joaquin." "and probably the radio." "{\fsp-0.5}Another disciplinary action." "{\fsp-0.5}Do yourself a favour." "don't skip weapons practice." "{\fsp-0.5}It's time to run." "{\fsp-0.5}You shouldn't have skipped PT classes either." "{\fsp-0.5}The best thing in these cases is to surprise the enemy." "but aren't stakes for vampires? so... it's a good idea." "{\fsp-0.5}And it keeps you occupied." "{\fsp-0.5}It'll be dawn in three hours." "we'll get out of this." "come here." "but stakes are for vampires." "{\fsp-0.5}My uncle wrote this book." "{\fsp-0.5}The marchioness's husband?" "{\fsp-0.5}He talks about the curse." "his wife was killed by an angry mob." "and managed to escape." "and I was born." "{\fsp-0.5}What happened to the marquis?" "{\fsp-0.5}He died a few years later. {\fsp-0.5}who investigated the curse. {\fsp-0.5}and that the gypsy who slept with my aunt" "{\fsp-0.5}had a history of lycanthropy in his family." "{\fsp-0.5}He had wolf blood in his veins. half boy." "{\fsp-0.5}Diego?" "{\fsp-0.5}Is that his name?" "{\fsp-0.5}Little Diego." "{\fsp-0.5}So he's your older cousin." "{\fsp-0.5}It's crazy!" "{\fsp-0.5}He's over 100!" "{\fsp-0.5}Why hasn't he grown up?" "{\fsp-0.5}I don't know." "Maybe it's the curse." "so I guess he's free of it." "{\fsp-0.5}What'll we do with him?" "of course." "{\fsp-0.5}Are you crazy?" "{\fsp-0.5}Why?" "{\fsp-0.5}None of this was his fault." "It was my damn aunt." "{\fsp-0.5}The poor thing has been a victim all his life." "{\fsp-0.5}That thing about crossbreeding reminds me of a very funny story." "{\fsp-0.5}Why didn't I remember it before?" "{\fsp-0.5}What is it?" "{\fsp-0.5}It's the story of a boy in a village and a sheep." "{\fsp-0.5}You swore you'd never tell! {\fsp-0.5}was horny as hell one winter." "{\fsp-0.5}Shut up! {\fsp-0.5}he went into his father's corral and scr... he made love with a sheep." "{\fsp-0.5}That's a lie!" "{\fsp-0.5}But that's not the worst of it." "come here." "{\fsp-0.5}...the sheep got pregnant and he thought it was his fault." "{\fsp-0.5}Not in front of your grandmother!" "{\fsp-0.5}He didn't sleep for two months. half yokel." "{\fsp-0.5}It was a long time ago." "{\fsp-0.5}We did awful things in the village then." "{\fsp-0.5}It's not that bad." "Who hasn't jerked off their pet?" "{\fsp-0.5}Quiet." "{\fsp-0.5}I had a hamster... {\fsp-0.5}Shut up!" "{\fsp-0.5}It's coming from the attic." "{\fsp-0.5}Maybe it's a mouse." "The other day Vito ate one." "he can go up." "Let's take a look." "{\fsp-0.5}Are you sure?" "{\fsp-0.5}What's wrong?" "Are you still scared of the attic?" "it's not that." "{\fsp-0.5}I went up the other day." "{\fsp-0.5}You nearly shit yourself." "{\fsp-0.5}That's a lie." "Indiana." "{\fsp-0.5}What is it?" "{\fsp-0.5}Shut up!" "Don't you hear that?" "{\fsp-0.5}Hear what?" "{\fsp-0.5}Listen!" "back from the dead to take revenge." "{\fsp-0.5}You're a dickhead." "the were-sheep." "{\fsp-0.5}He's all grown up now." "He's a big boy." "your sideburns... {\fsp-0.5}He's got..." "{\fsp-0.5}I don't think they heard us." "{\fsp-0.5}Will the door hold?" "{\fsp-0.5}Push it up!" "{\fsp-0.5}I can't do it." "{\fsp-0.5}MY fingers!" "{\fsp-0.5}Let's get out of here!" "{\fsp-0.5}I've got an idea!" "{\fsp-0.5}The ball!" "{\fsp-0.5}What are you doing?" "{\fsp-0.5}The ball!" "See the ball?" "{\fsp-0.5}Fetch!" "{\fsp-0.5}I thought the genes... get out." "I'll cover you." "{\fsp-0.5}Hurry!" "run!" "{\fsp-0.5}Where?" "hurry!" "{\fsp-0.5}Run!" "{\fsp-0.5}What happened to your head?" "{\fsp-0.5}I shot myself." "{\fsp-0.5}I blew away a bit of my scalp to make them think I was dead." "{\fsp-0.5}Better to lose a bit of skin and hair right?" "right?" "{\fsp-0.5}Shit." "{\fsp-0.5}This is a sacred place." "{\fsp-0.5}I bet they can't come in." "They're cursed." "{\fsp-0.5}Move them back." "{\fsp-0.5}Mario!" "{\fsp-0.5}Spread out." "{\fsp-0.5}No!" "{\fsp-0.5}Take him away." "{\fsp-0.5}Take him behind the altar." "{\fsp-0.5}Take him away." "{\fsp-0.5}Look at this!" "{\fsp-0.5}It's from the Civil War!" "There's a tunnel to the wine cellars." "I'll keep them back." "{\fsp-0.5}There's no time to mess around!" "Get in there!" "{\fsp-0.5}I'll follow you." "{\fsp-0.5}I know what you're going to try." "{\fsp-0.5}The dynamite probably won't work." "{\fsp-0.5}Go on." "{\fsp-0.5}Look after the boy." "{\fsp-0.5}Good luck!" "like yogurt?" "{\fsp-0.5}Miserable sons of a bitches!" "{\fsp-0.5}Shit!" "{\fsp-0.5}Keep running!" "{\fsp-0.5}What about Tomas?" "{\fsp-0.5}There's a way out here!" "{\fsp-0.5}Burn!" "Fuck you!" "Burn!" "{\fsp-0.5}Let's go!" "{*}" "{\fsp-0.5}Where's Tomas?" "{\fsp-0.5}Tomas?" "{\fsp-0.5}Tomas is alive!" "Help me!" "hold on!" "{\fsp-0.5}Hold on!" "{\fsp-0.5}Don't let go!" "{\fsp-0.5}I've got you!" "Don't let go!" "{\fsp-0.5}My arm!" "{\fsp-0.5}Talk to me!" "{\fsp-0.5}Diego?" "{\fsp-0.5}Hang on!" "{\fsp-0.5}Thanks." "{\fsp-0.5}How are you?" "don't worry." "{\fsp-0.5}How did you know...?" "{\fsp-0.5}We saw the fire." "you didn't answer." "{\fsp-0.5}What the hell happened here?" "{\fsp-0.5}Wait till you read my report." "You'll be amazed." "arrest the whole village." "the ones who are left." "{\fsp-0.5}If there is anyone left." "{\fsp-0.5}Mario!" "{\fsp-0.5}How are you? {\fsp-0.5}at least not as goalkeeper." "but I couldn't play it anyway." "{\fsp-0.5}There's one thing." "Alejandro Sanz." "{\fsp-0.5}There are lots of them." "{\fsp-0.5}Please?" "{\fsp-0.5}Yes?" "{\fsp-0.5}Can you save him?" "{\fsp-0.5}We'll do our best." "Tomas." "of course." "{\fsp-0.5}Your wife?" "{\fsp-0.5}That's right." "I bring flowers." "{\fsp-0.5}My deepest sympathy." "{\fsp-0.5}Thank you." "{\fsp-0.5}The flowers are lovely." "I never spare any expense." "my life has been empty." "{\fsp-0.5}Not a day goes by that I don't think about her." "the sun in my garden." "I'm nothing." "{\fsp-0.5}There's nothing left for me in this world." "{\fsp-0.5}I pray to God that I will soon be with her." "{\fsp-0.5}Do you have a loved one nearby?" "{\fsp-0.5}Hello?" "{\fsp-0.5}You're a louse." "{\fsp-0.5}What are we going to do about our little problem?" "{\fsp-0.5}What little problem?" "both of us were bitten." "you become one." "{\fsp-0.5}How can you believe that rubbish?" "especially after what's happened." "{\fsp-0.5}Vito!" "the first thing is to see if you've been infected." "{\fsp-0.5}Tonight there's a full moon." "{\fsp-0.5}Why are you tying us up?" "{\fsp-0.5}Just in case." "you won't be very nice to me." "what'll you do?" "{\fsp-0.5}I don't know." "We'll improvise." "{\fsp-0.5}You're not still annoyed about your fingers?" "don't worry." "This is just in case." "{\fsp-0.5}Feel anything?" "{\fsp-0.5}Nothing." "{\fsp-0.5}My nose is itchy." "did you taste the finger?" "{\fsp-0.5}No." "to see if it was salted enough." "{\fsp-0.5}Maybe I took a little bit of skin." "a little suck." "{\fsp-0.5}But that means we're protected against the curse." "{\fsp-0.5}You think so?" "{\fsp-0.5}I'm sure." "{\fsp-0.5}That's why nothing's happening." "{\fsp-0.5}Maybe you're right." "you can untie us." "We're not infected." "{\fsp-0.5}What's wrong with him?" "{\fsp-0.5}Tomas!" "were you?" "I played that joke already!" "shit!" "{\fsp-0.5}He didn't say a word!" "{\fsp-0.5}Fucking hell!" "{\fsp-0.5}Do you think he'll remember us?" "he'll remember the taste" "{\fsp-0.5}and that we cut off two of his fingers!" "{\fsp-0.5}What the fuck do we do now?" "{\fsp-0.5}Resign ourselves." "{\fsp-0.5}What?" "{\fsp-0.5}Let him bite us." "We'll become werewolves and that's that." "{\fsp-0.5}We'll form a little pack." "{\fsp-0.5}What?" "How can I be a werewolf with just one arm? attack flocks of sheep... {\fsp-0.5}It's not such a bad life." "{\fsp-0.5}You're crazy!"