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The Sacrifice

Rin Chupeco
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  27. Twenty-Four
  28. Twenty-Five
  29. Twenty-Six
  30. Acknowledgments
  31. About the Author

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Contents

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

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Twenty-One

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Twenty-Four

Twenty-Five

Twenty-Six

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Back Cover

For the Scooby Doo Manila squad—until our next hunt

He who offers the sacrifice controls the Godseye.

The first to feed,

the second to seed,

the third to wear,

the fourth to birth,

the fifth to serve,

the sixth to lure,

the seventh to consume,

the last to wake.

One

The Cave

Nobody tells Hollywood about the screaming.

Nobody tells Hollywood about the curse. Or the way things walk across the sands here like they are alive enough to breathe. Nobody tells them of the odd ways the night moves around these parts when it thinks no one sees.

Nobody gives them permission to visit, and it’s all the incentive Hollywood needs to permit themselves.

The people who live in the provinces nearest the island don’t talk. Not at first. But money is the universal language, and the years have been lean enough, desperate enough. Tongues loosen. The words come reluctantly.

Yes, they say. There is a curse. Yes; at least five people dead.

No, they say. We will not step foot on that island with you, not even if you gave us a million dollars.

Hollywood crashes into the island, anyway; it’s a new breed of conquistadors trading technology for cannons. First their scouts: marking territory, measuring miles of ground, surveying land. Next their specialists: setting camp, clearing brush, arguing over schematics. Then their builders arrive with containment units, solar panels, and hardwood. In the space of a few days, they construct four small bungalows with an efficiency I’m not accustomed to seeing.