#and i oop...

insult someone my muse cares about on anon || no longer accepting

“And I’m sure you never made any foolish decisions when you were 12, huh?”

“Mira, I’m aware he did some things he shouldn’t have and that those things nearly did cost him his life. But there’s a special respect here in the Land of the Dead for those who help lost souls find their path again. Me and mi familia living or dead owe so much to that kid.

I know for a fact I didn’t have guts like that when I was his age. And most of the people around me encouraged me to play. But because of me, he was forced to hide away something he loved so much; th-that still makes me feel icky. Finding the courage to move past that when no one is backing you is hard to do, especially at that age. What he did wasn’t ‘seeking fame and fortune’, that was seeking someone who could make him feel less isolated in his own home. Someone who could give him answers. You get that??

I spend most of the night with that chamaco and I’ll never forget the feel of him soaking wet and shaking in my arms down in that maldecida cenote. I can assure you, he learned what was important, just the same as the rest of us. He was ready to give up everything to help give my family what was robbed from us decades before he was born. As a grandfather, I wish he hadn’t risked everything he did for a rickety bag of dead bones like me. But as a rata peluda who wasn’t going to last to see the sunrise, he was the miracle I had been praying for.