Bad Thing Excerpt

CABEZA (As if telling the audience a “scary story”)
The Bad Thing would come in their huts and take hold of anyone he wanted and with a flint as broad as a hand he would cut that person’s flank and take out the entrails. He would cut off a little piece and toss it into the fire and then put his hand over the wound and it would just snap (snaps his fingers) heal right up. He would come when they were dancing, as a man, or as a woman. If he wanted to, he’d throw a hut up in the air and hold it there, suspended.

Animal raises a painting from the ground on pulleys up to the ceiling. It sways during the following:

TIZON
I borrowed a small chain from my master and turned into a city of gold. In my golden city, everyone knew me. When they seen me they said, “Don’t look. His eyes will tell your sins.” They said, watch out for him, he’s a tricky one.

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