Evenings by the fire, Luz listened eagerly to stories about the Mountain Boy, Tepozton, the son of a god— how he never missed when he shot quail and turkey for the people to eat, how he hung bells on a steeple no one could reach,
and how he outwitted a man-eating giant! And how Malintzin, betrayer of the Aztecs, was swept to the top of a mountain, where she cries in the wind at night, pulling her long black hair.
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