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MAY DAY EVE
NICK JOAQUIN
The ball had ended, the girls were sent upstairs to sleep, while the guest from Europe who were feeling bad for their drink and have some more fun in that tropical country. At the girls room Anastasia was telling the girls that witches were abroad for it was night of divination, night of lovers, and those who cared might peer in the mirror and would there behold Anastasia to stop and get out of the room and told her she is witch, but another girl said that Anastasia is a maga and was born on Christmas Eve.
One girl is very eager and much interested on Anastasia’s story and want Anastasia to tell her everything, so Anastasia for tell to the girls what to do. That she must go to a mirror close her eyes and say “mirror mirror show to me him whose woman I will be”, then Anastasia continued that if all goes right then her love will appear above her left shoulder and if it does not goes right she will see the devil.
Agueda walked to the hall down to the sala bravely. The girls have not able to stop her and in their facing the mirror, she whispered te incantation. Agueda felt different and after a while, she has a company. Then she heared her little child talk that she almost forgets was in her lap. The child ask if what did she saw, if she saw the devil. Then she told her child that yes she saw the devil, it was smiling at her.
The devil has a scar in its face like what his father has but the difference is that of the devil is a mark of sin while that his father is a sign of honor. Agueda continued that the devil has mustaches too but unlike to that of his husband that smells of tobacco and is gray, that of the devil is so black and elegant. Agueda told her habit of always looking at the mirror.
“Charms like yours have no need for a candle, fair one” Badoy Montiya told Agueda then mockingly told her how vain she is that even in the middle of the night she is looking at