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—She’s been asked, and she’s more than willing. The priest wants sixty pesos to overlook the marriage banns. I told him he’d be paid in due time. Says he needs to fix the altar and that his dining table is falling apart. I promised we’d send a new one. He says you never attend mass. I promised him you would. He also says you haven’t paid any tithes since your grandmother passed. I told him not to worry.

Drops fall, one after another, through the stone filter. As fresh water emerges from the rock one hears the sound it makes as it drips into a clay pitcher. One listens. Hearing whispers. Hearing feet that scrape against the floor, that walk back and forth. The dripping continues nonstop. The pitcher overflows, sending water across the floor.
<> someone calls.

The flashbacks including Father Rentería are definitely the most enjoyable and engaging great character playing a crucial part within the town