Beautiful Sacrifice
“She was too busy calculating her best chance for an escape to worry about being half nude. In any case, breasts weren’t a Maya fetish; they were simply a means of feeding babies.As she walked between lines of men to the waiting altar, none of them leered at her. If anything, there was respect in their attitude. She was their gateway to the creation of the next Maya world. Her head was high and her hair was unbound, lifting and falling in the unpredictable wind.She wished her hair was shorter th...an her little finger. Hair was too easy to grab, to use as a binding, to imprison her as surely as the lines of short, muscular men standing close to her.She had to escape.Somehow.I waited all my life for Hunter. I’ll be damned if I lose my future to my nutcase cousin and his equally crazy followers.Without moving her head, Lina looked for a chance to run. No matter how many slow steps she took, escape seemed farther away.As she walked out of the jungle toward the cenote, a feeling of dreamlike unreality condensed around her, a combination of torchlight, ancient costumes, the dry wind making the jungle bow, and lightning clawing the night with thin, incandescent fingers.MoreLess
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