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Fire and blood barnes and noble6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Seventh child, a daughter, a useless mouth to feed. Mother taught her all her duties, but without joy. Before, when she lived in her parents’ house, it was much of the same, domesticity and a dreary alternation of pointless tasks. Simple meals accompanied by coarse bread, lessons and readings of saints and martyrs, a few phrases in Latin, these are all the things she knows. Sewing, baking, sweeping and scrubbing the floors. She spends her days in song and prayer, a humdrum existence driven by habit and monotony. The convent was built on top a pyramid, an attempt to vanquish the old traditions, but many Mayan ruins remain around the peninsula. She is a novice at a convent near a small town baked by the harsh sun, a town south of Mérida a town where all buildings are painted yellow and white. She stands near the edge of the waterhole, observing its beautiful depths, her hands clutching her long skirt.Īt her feet there is a burlap sack. Yellowed bones tangle with jade necklaces and gold bracelets in the depths of the cenote, where blind fish and crayfish swim. ![]()
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