2T4U/Keep listening to what the Janitor has to say
From Create Your Own Story
The janitor grabs one of the old tomes and opens it. Flipping through, he then finds a page which he shows you: a woodcut depicting a woman being burned on the stake, while devils and monsters laugh in the flames. ”Maria died in front of hundreds of witnesses. But brujas are beings of dark magic, and Maria's power was without any parallel.” He flips to another page, with hand-made writings that looks reminiscent of a journal.”My ancestor, Emanuel de Santa, was an witch hunter trained by the Vatican's finest exorcists. After Maria died, he interrogated her neighbors for clues about where and how she performed her magic. In his memoirs, he mentions a cave outside of town, where she apparently made deals with dark demons to enhance her powers. I don't know exactly how we should end this curse; but searching that cave for clues should be an excellent start.”
He shuts the tome again and walks back to the cabinet, where he starts filling a leather satchel with weapons and reagents. ”I'll drive us there right now. Don't worry about school; I'll forge a note from your mama so the teachers won't worry about your absence.”.
All of this is happening so fast, but for some reason this all seems to make sense. So you follow the janitor to his pickup truck on the school parking lot, and before you know it you're driving with him out of town, to the desert highway.
Hours pass. The janitor steers into serpentine pathways that eventually end by the foot of a great red mountain. You then have to walk on foot for a while, climbing cliffs and crags until you see a tiny black hole among the rocks; a cave. The Janitor hands you the bags, along with a flashlight.
”Good luck down there, niño. Find out whatever you can about the curse, and how to stop it. I'll wait out here for as long as it takes.”
The sudden news hit you like a shock. You'll be entering the cave alone?
”Like I said, you're uncorrupted by the curse. You're not controlled by lust, so you'll survive whatever she throws at you. I, on the other hand, have only managed to endure thanks to my training as a child. But if I were to enter a place so closely connected to her powers, there's no telling what I might do: especially to a little boy such as yourself.”.
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