1



You live here?

Excuse me...?

My friends

say that I

look like a

mouse, ha.

I didn’t say.

They call me

Mickey... after Mickey Mouse.

What did

you say your

name was?

I really

need to

take a

shower

and then

go to bed

until sun-

rise.

The bathroom is I could use a drink.

over there, on Just pour a bottle the left.

of whiskey into something and put Would you

some ice in it. That like some-should help me thing to eat...

sleep.

or maybe a

drink?

3



As I’ve

You know...

already

um...

... But on

told you...

... I wanna

... You can

one con-

know...

count on

dition.

me... for

anything...

A witch

give you

some kind

of potion

What is it?

or what?

Some kind

of voodoo

spell?

... your

secret of

being bullet-

proof.

You make

me laugh,

Mickey.

Tell me something.

It’s Fershid the Could you find some magician and his people here in London little girl

if I give you their Satya.

names?

Whatever. They led me to this Because when you woman Fever

and your friends Valderrama and a attacked me, I boy that travels with lost them.

her. His name is Buddy and he pretends to be her nephew.

Can you find

them?

Are you

I guess

talking about

so. I have

the Hindu and

many

the girl who

contacts.

escaped when

the shooting

started?

4



If you do that, The two of us

Here’s your

I’ll tell you the Idiot. He’ll

together, that drink.

secret of my

buy any

no bullets can Cheers.

invulnerability.

bullshit I

harm, will be

Promise.

sell him.

invincible,

baby.

Okay. I’ll go

I’ll shut

Don’t

lay down in

the blinds.

do

your bed-

that!

Y-y-yes.

room now.

The morning

Does it look

light fills

on to the

the room

street?

completely.

As soon as it’s dawn I want the sunshine all

over me. Ahhh.

Agh.

As you

wish.

5



Good

night, I’ll

sleep on

the sofa.

Fershid the

I’ll pull

I wonder if...

... If my body looks magician and

some

like hers, is it his little girl strings

really worth it?

Satya...

... this is

to find

really

these

... Fever

something

Gulp!

people.

Valderrama

that I want.

and a boy

called

Buddy.

I mean,

being

bullet-

proof is

awesome,

but...

Yes, Fershid,

And you, Fershid, But is this

But I signed

that woman is

mustn’t go back really so

a contract

bloodthirsty and to that theatre urgent?

and I can’t...

she’s way too

Daddy,

and perform.

powerful.

please...

Please.

Aunt

Fever and

I must leave

this hotel

immediately.

She’s after

us.

You’re

Do what Buddy tells the only

you. If you don’t, that Hey you. ..

person I have

almost beheaded Where to?

left after

woman will kill you.

mother’s

death.

6



It’s a long story,

... but now is very What is this

but we’re here in 7 Kingston

much alive, no place?

hopes of finding the Road.

doubt about it.

answer on how to But...

beat Ahmasi - the old name that wild beast embodied in a woman’s body once used. She was once dead...

Dear Fershid, if you don’t understand certain things, it’s best to keep your mouth shut.

Okay.

And, please,

Trust

Buddy.

I couldn’t

Minute

And the

She

A Hindu

sleep all

by minute

people she

certainly

Some-

magician, a

night long...

I’m more

is looking

doesn’t

one must

blind mulatto

and more

for are

look or

have

and a boy all

sure that

weirdos,

behave like

stolen

vanish from

shattered

too.

... It must

a poor

her per-

their hotel...

woman lying

be dawn

brutalized

sonality.

on my bed is

by now.

whore.

not Amanda

Nicanor.

None of

... They’re

So why is

I’ll wake

them is

insignificant

she looking

her up and...

linked to

people.

for them?

crime king-

Gluuuuuub!

pins or drug

dealers...

But... what

is this?

7



This is

the right

address.

But...

it’s an old,

abandoned

church.

Me, too.

It looks

I have to go in.

What

Will some-

like

No wonder, Buddy. It’s This address

are you

body give

there’s

almost seventy years is probably

looking

me a hand,

no one

since they put this map useless.

for here?

please?

here.

in Lord Carnarvon’s coffin.

Come,

Fever.

8



... Maybe

No... you?

the words

Or one

immortality and of your

Khufu ring

friends...?

a bell?

None

of your

business,

old man.

Al-

though...

Who

among you is

condemned

to eternal

life?

I am.

It’s

impossible...

... Impossible.

It’s as if

... it’s

the sun...

impossible...

... healed

her wounds,

those

monstrous

mutila-

tions.

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Besides...

... She has

a beautiful

body.

Should I ...

I don’t

touch her and

know if I

wake her up?

should, I...

Wanna

touch

me?

A woman

Cheer

It’s just

who feels

up.

a cold

woman’s

like spending

body.

some time

with a man.

I said with

a man, not

Mickey

But I

Mouse.

guess I

should do

my best to

please you.

10



You?

A boy?

A boy

that suffers

from immor-

tality?

A creature that Nothing

lives for years, cen-could be

turies, millenniums, worse than

It’s cruel;

gathering information that.

that’s why I

and knowledge but don’t believe

I don’t

will never grow up to you.

believe

become a man.

you.

But it’s

true.

We’ll see.

Let’s do

a test.

A test that

we’ve been

waiting for so long to try.

So long, that

I believed only the descendants of my descendants could do it.

Do it

now,

Urgot!!

Urgo t!!

11



12



He...

Impos-

... killed

sible.

him.

Nothing

can kill

him.

13



If that was

your test,

bagger, I’ve

passed it.

Now...

... Now let’s

talk about

how to beat

immortality.

14



Yes, we’ll

talk about it, boy.

We’ll talk about immortality and how to cure it.

We have

so much to

talk about.

Throughout

the ages we

have left you

notes; signs.

All the

time we were

wondering where the immortals

And in that

would show up.

time we created the great mystery that all who

studied the old Egyptian culture ran up against.

We used

to disguise

ourselves as Arabs -

the desecrators of the pyramids- to write inside them the keys that you and people like you could understand.

15



Because it was we who stacked the mummies

inside the caves of the upper Nile valley. We put them there to

get the attention of the immortals.

Too bad. By the end of the 19th century that drove the Even today, they wonder who scientists nuts.

hid the bodies of so many important people in the same place.

And they still try to translate the inscription that says “Immortals, find the secret of the end in Asis’s temple.”

There were

thousands of

And the

clues.

remaining six

wonders of the ancient world, except the

pyramids, were eventually swept away by the

winds of history...

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In different

... The message languages and

was written in words that man Diana’s temple, on had invented...

the Lighthouse of Alexandria and in the Hanging Gardens of

Babylon...

We went to America with the conquistadores, in hopes that some immortal would set off on a similar adventure.

But you never saw the fruits of our labor, which grew day by day throughout the centuries.

And thus we invented the legend that the source of eternal youth lies somewhere in the rain We sacrificed

forest of Brazil.

our lives so the immortals would notice our

exhortations.

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They didn’t hear our Why didn’t you We were

voices and thus read the treaties Why didn’t you ever waiting for

passed thousands of alchemy which look at Nostradamus’s you.

of years.

described how to prophecy, which says discover the secret that somewhere in Of course

We were

we don’t blame of immortality?

Europe the wise man screaming: “If is waiting for the you, for you

didn’t know how you want to

Prince of immortality to connect

beat immortality, and mentions exactly with us.

look for us.”

where one of us is always on guard?

You’re so young and so old at

You keep

Who knows?

the same time...

saying “we.”

We’ve changed

Who are you

names so many

times...

... So

talking

inexperienced

about?

and yet so

wise.

We belonged

to the Sect of Eternal Return at the end of

ancient Egypt’s last empire.

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Also, the

nine Templar

Knights who

protected

pilgrims on

their way to

the holy land.

And members of the And the one who They knew

They knew what caused secret lodges who after the disaster in what had

died in torture the desert entrusted the phenomenon that chambers without ever us with the secret —

happened.

killed all Khufu’s men.

telling the others by way of the wise what we did.

priests, enormously powerful at

that time.

No, I don’t know. The They read in the drawings got lost in the drawings from the Do you know

sand that covered that sky what gave

what caused

whole part of history.

immortality to it? Will you

those who

tell me that?

survived.

Besides, we

were only servants whose duty was To obey

to obey.

orders we

were given...

19



You and your

You’ll

In exchange

heirs will

inherit

for this,

be rich.

a huge

you’ll take

fortune.

care of

something.

At the

But the inexorable beginning,

advance of time maybe they

made them change Alive and

enjoyed it like their minds. They condemned

imagined they were it was some

to immor-

doomed for not You’ll give

kind of gift.

tality.

being gods.

them these

instructions

You’ll have

so they can

to find two

abandon this

or three

world when

persons who

they’ve had

remained

enough.

alive.

Neither

you nor your

descendants will ever give up this obligation until you fulfill it.

That was

an oath

impossible

to break.

And I was

there,

waiting.

A descendant

of the descen-

dants of the

descendants of those faithful men.

20



Have you

ever heard

rumors

about the

curse of the

pharaohs?

Yeah,

sure.

It was one of our tricks We put a snake in Carter’s to attract you.

canary cage that swallowed it, thus producing the first false prediction of the expedition to the tomb of Tutankhamen.

.. And pricked him as if a We entered Lord mosquito bit him, and that A slow acting poison -

Carnarvon’s room sent him to the tomb in another wonder of while he was sleeping...

just a few weeks.

the ancient world.

21



It was we who

Are you

That was the only way to Yes, I

caused the strange Fever, the

fulfill the old prophecy am.

deaths that fol-blind

from the Book of the I see.

lowed afterwards.

woman?

Dead which you were able to decipher.

All of

them.

Well,

actually my

friend Fever

managed to

do it.

The book was

It says

“A woman who sees written a long Names aren’t

here...

from behind her important, but eyes will help the time ago and its the mission

youngest immortal author remains that moves

find the peace he’s unknown.

?

us is.

been longing for.”

Who wrote

this book?

22



This church was And it was a

a place where

good place to

But it was bombed A mission

people could have wait as we drank and God only knows that is

lived after we left wine in this cozy why the bureaucrats coming to

the message on sacristy.

never rebuilt it.

an end.

Carnarvon’s

tomb.

So I had to wait, exposed to wind and bad weather, surrounded by garbage and disguised as a beggar so I wouldn’t look

suspicious in case you showed up.

I was 16 years old No, my big

when I first put on Humidity ruined brother used

these stinky rags.

my poor bones, to help me

But... you

but I’m a satis-when he was

were on

fied man.

healthy enough.

guard

Now I’m 65.

alone?

Later I

retired and

left this place to some other

heir.

But,

come

with me...

23



We don’t

have to stay

in this dirty

place any

longer.

Urgot

will take

us to my

house for

a cup of

tea and to

finish our

conver-

sation.

I’m Gerald

McEwan.

Pleased to

meet you.

I’m a very

wealthy man.

Other rich

people think

I’m crazy.

I do believe that Ha.

the length of time it took to resolve the Ha. Don’t

secret deserves to you find

be published in the this a

Now, to

Guinness Book of lovely

finish our

Records.

idea?

conver-

sation.

24



How come you

couldn’t find

them?

Look...

They never

They are

I called all

returned to

insignificant

my contacts

the hotel.

people...

and no one

knows any-

No one

... Why are

thing.

knows who

they so

they are.

important

to you?

Do you

Ge t ou t

understand what of my way,

The only

I said, Mickey you moron!

possibility left Mouse?

is if Fershid

the magician

returns to

the theatre

tonight.

If you don’t

find them today, I’ll never tell you the secret of being

bulletproof.

25



We’re almost

We’ll talk as the sun there, my

rays warm our bodies friends.

through the windows

…after

of the winter garden.

so many

Finally…

years…

…and

so many

lives.

26



The only way to learn how to become bulletproof is to find these people Bitch.

she wants.

I guess it’s

worth it...

Ahem,

... It’s really hello

worth it.

Mickey

Mouse.

27



What’s up, Mickey?

Oh, yes,

All the boys

Well... Amanda’s bodyguards, I heard last night it was

were killed, I armed to the teeth, were all when we caught up very nasty,

think. I was the around her... I had to escape...

with Amanda Nicanor Carmine.

only one who

then the police came... they and asked her to got away.

were following me... I was hiding tell us what she did with the money she for hours in trash bins on stole, there was a the streets... it was...

nasty shooting, it was...

right?

You could have warned me!

Great idea, ha ha This

Ah. And you were I was just

ha. I’ll see a doc-

...terrible.

business

under so much

on my way

tor right away. I makes you

stress that you to Harold’s

know one in the very nerv-couldn’t report bar to see

neighborhood.

ous, Mickey.

anything?

if you were

there.

See

Maybe you

you later,

should go see

Carmine.

You must

a doctor so

forgive

he can pre-

me... I...

scribe some

sedatives, and when you calm

down, then

we’ll talk

about it all

night long.

Follow

him, Pepsi.

I’ll use this

opportunity

to search his

apartment.

I don’t

know why,

but I smell

betrayal in

the cold

sweat of that

wretch.

28



What are you

doing here?

Are you Amanda Maybe

Nicanor?

I am.

29



Mickey made

Aren’t you

Should

a deal with you, So… I can hurt you, scared?

So what?

I be?

right? He plans torture you, until to share the

you tell me where money you

you hid it.

stole from

us, right?

This could

last for

See?

You’d

hours.

better

start

talking.

... with

What a jerk!

the most

delicious

blood.

... You

unfor-

tunate

mortal...

30



I’d better

Maybe on the

... I hate these When I finish

go out for

street I’ll be towns with

my job here,

a minute.

exposed to

so much

I’ll never ever more sun...

clouds and

come back to

rain.

London.

Stay here

I have to

That rat came

She told him 7 PM

and watch

warn Carmine

to the theater and and it looks like he’ll him closely,

immediately about spent half an hour stay for another Dario.

the strange

asking the cleaning eight hours without things that

lady what time that moving his butt.

Mickey’s doing.

Hindu magician usually comes

There are

there.

few of them.

Is there any

I Mustn’t

connection

forget

between Amanda anything.

Nicanor and that shitty magician?

Carmine will

tell me because he surely knows how to think.

31



... I promised that poor Oh, I just

wretch that if he finds remem-any trace of the name-bered...

less boy or of his friends, I’d tell him the secret of how to become bulletproof.

How

Three

much is this

pounds.

necklace?

I’ll

take it.

Ha,

ha...

32



Hmm... Carmine didn’t go back to the car. It’s still parked in the same

place.

Carmine?

Are you

....

here?

Something

happened and I I have to

don’t understand call the

what it is.

boss.

But if that’s

Carmine, who’ll Oh my

explain it

good-

to me?

ness!!!

33



Another cup

More

of tea?

biscuits?

No

No, I’m

thanks.

fine.

Servants

may withdraw,

Mildred.

Right

Please.

away,

milord.

34



My loyal Urgot went out to look for Our discipline However, in spite We’re very

It’s because

has decayed a

someone and he’s of the enormous surprised

bit over these I have so much kind of late.

importance that this to see you

thousands of

time left, Mr.

business could have had here, boy.

years. That’s why McEwan...

during its evolution, I was distracting you with different you don’t seem to tea fragrances be worried.

before talking to you about

the thing that connects us.

Ah, my older

brother, Brian McEwan, is

finally here.

Is it true what Urgot told me, little brother?

Have you

found one

of them?

35



Yes, I

am the

one.

Incredible!

But it’s a

boy!

Do you remember when we Of course, and The secret

said that the legend of a how much was added of the

little immortal boy was to this legend as it death,

impossible?

passed from one mouth immortal

to another throughout boy.

the centuries. How much myth is there in all that we’ve heard from the custodians of the secret?

The secret I think No, it’s not that, you desperately

... He needs to kill the he doesn’t want need because you immortal woman who’s to die...

cannot put up with been trying to finish him life anymore.

off since the beginning of this very old story.

36



Is a piece

Come closer,

of cake.

boy.

To kill an

immortal

I’ll

woman.

tell you

where

the key is.

The key,

kiddo...

... The key

lies in

your

blood.

37



I’d better

stay away

from

Mickey’s

I think

apartment.

I’ll have

lots of

fun today.

I’ll wait

here until

he comes

back.

38



It’s funny.

Taking almost

5000 years to find out how to kill that poisonous snake Ahmasi.

Tell me

how to do

it, Mr. McEwan.

What you

It’s true.

explained to

All the big

me sounds so

secrets are

simple, but

apparently very I still don’t

simple.

get it.

Listen

... You have to fill And mix it with the Luckily, in the past 5000 years carefully,

a bowl with your blood that runs they invented these little nameless

own blood, and through the body of useful devices that allow boy...

then when the time the immortal that you us to do it very comes, you must want to kill.

quickly.

pour it out.

39



... thus

So, if you want to get

... stick it in immobilizing

rid of Ahmasi forever, her vein...

her.

you just have to take That’s

your own blood and...

all.

... Only then

she’ll die.

If I was the last That doesn’t

... Then how do I living immortal, satisfy you, little die when I get too and there was no Well,

other immortal immortal?

tired of living?

not quite.

left on the earth?

Unless...

If I kill

Hmm…this problem seems to have no her...

solution.

... Unless I take out Ahmasi’s blood and inject it in my veins, and thus we’ll both die at the same time.

40



Urgot,

would you

bring me

the book,

please?

Luckily, one of I think this

our ancestors had I have to

old book of

printed the texts re-read a

priests contains from “The Book of the chapter that,

a similar case.

Living” from the heavy frankly, I

stones they were forgot.

engraved in. So far, no one has

seen them.

I’ll need

quite a lot

of time to

decipher it.

Right now that woman is

... that Fershid In the meantime probably trying to the magician

we should think locate the boy.

performs at

on how to set a the theatre

trap for Ahmasi However,

None of us is at that tonight.

that will allow I have an

hotel, so she must be us to take a

idea.

desperate.

sample of

So, to

her blood.

It won’t

help bring

be easy.

But she knows

one thing...

this story to

a close, I’ll

volunteer

as bait.

41



He’s going in

... He’s obviously It’s him —

through the

performing

the Hindu

performers’

tonight.

magician!

entrance...

42



I’ll check and Sorry, sir;

An hour and

confirm this

Of course

How long

does the Hin-

a half. Now if very important he does. He’s

does the

du magician

you’ll excuse me, information.

changing into

Excuse

act last?

perform

I’d like to sell his wardrobe.

me, please.

tonight?

tickets to people Coming

who actually want through.

to attend the

show.

You’re so

rude, I was

here first.

That’s it.

I did what

Amanda

asked me

to do.

I found one of

... for the secret the people she’s of becoming

looking for in bulletproof.

exchange for...

... for...

43



Mickey

His apartment

... He’d better Mouse is

is crawling

not go up

coming.

with men

there yet.

angry over

Carmine’s

I’m sure

death...

Hello,

he brings

Mickey!

me infor-

mation I

want to

hear.

I have good

news for

you.

I found

that stupid

Hindu magician that you’re so interested in.

Where?

I’ll tell You

Oh, yes,

You see

Yes. It’s an

That’s

that Only

of course... I The Oglulos?

when you

promised to

this?

amulet of some right. It was

I’ve never

tell me your

tell you the

primitive tribe.

made by the

secret of

secret...

shaman of

heard of

becoming

the Oglulos.

such a tribe.

bullet-

proof.

I have to make up a story about the trinket I

bought this

morning...

44



Really? Well, Margaret Mead studied this tribe thoroughly.

“And since the Oglulos had a

They had

powerful enemy —

a shaman, a

the rabbles who sorcerer who

always used to discovered the beat them in

words that

battle —”

enabled him to communicate

with Manitou,

their god.

“... He asked

Manitou for a

spell that will always protect them from

their enemy’s

arrows.”

“The big god

provided a huge number of amulets that would

prevent them

from dying out.”

Oh, no, they

Ahhh...

I have two of these charms.

didn’t. Almost all the I used one to save myself inhabitants of... of ... of from yesterday’s shooting.

Alaska descend from the Oglulos.

And the

other

one...

But they died

out anyway ...

... The other one At the theater is for you. But I’ll where he per-only give it you forms. His act once you tell me has already

where Fershid

is. Now!

started, and it Now, give

lasts an hour

me that.

and a half.

45



Then I’ll go

see him.

You go

back to your

house... I’ll be back soon.

Okay?

Tell me...

should I wear

It doesn’t

the charm

matter. No-

around my

thing and no

neck?

one can kill

you now.

I’ll be waiting for you tonight, and I’ll make a I’d love to

special cock-

try your

tail. Don’t be cocktail,

late, Amanda.

Mick...

... Because

it will be a

bloody one.

46



... cut my

finger-

nails and

toenails

and...

Now I’ll

take a bath,

put on some

Sigh!...

cologne...

What a

woman.

... And...

What

happened

here, guys?

You tell

us, Mickey.

Now!

You let Amanda Nicanor I... I

You’ve

Ha, ha,

escape; Carmine was killed don’t

made lots of

ha...

in your apartment, and know...

mistakes, you

No, Pepsi.

dirty rat.

judging from the I have the Oglulos teeth marks...

charm that

protects me.

We have to kill you for three reasons, you idiot.

Bullets can’t

harm me.

Betrayal,

murdering a

superior and

trying to rip

us off.

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You sure

about

that?

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But...

... they

killed...

... me?

49



All

right...

I must be

good bait.

That woman

came to

find me.

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53



54



55



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57



58



59



60



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You’re down,

Ahmasi, you

disgusting

priestess of

the snake.

You’re

down and

now you’ll

die.

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She’s

Yes, the

carbonized.

electrical

charge I sent

through her

body was

powerful.

Strong

enough to

kill ten

people.

Ah!

She’s still

alive.

It’s

incredible.

I think even though the brutal You won’t recover electric shock prevents her until sunrise.

from moving, she can still understand us.

Which gives

me quite

enough time

to tell you

Yeah, she

some things.

definitely

You know

can.

what?

I never knew

why you hated me so for the past 5000 years.

... And it’s a good thing that you can hear

what I have to say, Ahmasi...

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“You tried to kill me in the town where we were

“You tried to kill me born in the middle of under the sun and in the desert.”

the shadows.”

“You tried to

entomb me

inside those

inviolable

monuments...”

“... that the desecrators of the tombs managed to open only a few centuries later.”

And all that

was not enough for you! So your hatred made

you follow me

until you

Do you remember found me.

all the times you tried to finish me, I tried to

you snake?

stay away

from you but

you were

always

after me.

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“In the imperial city when you had me impaled because you slept with that weak general who, because of you, ordered his men to torture and kill an innocent boy...”

“... An innocent boy who was

2600 years old.”

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“And after

that...”

“After that there was so much hatred.”

“When immortality became a big burden to me, and I wished to bask in the knowledge of the chosen one, who knew he was immortal, too...”

“... you couldn’t take it.”

“You seduced that poor wretch Judas, so he would sell you anything for 20 coins because he needed to have you.”

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“I tried to work it out with you back then. Remember that, Ahmasi?”

“We were surrounded by the heroes. The king of legen-dary name, the court that the troubadours praised in their songs for centuries.”

“That day I was looking I came to ask

for you in Camelot so you to bury

we could talk.”

the hatchet.

I don’t

Hello,

know.

Nenyve. Or

Ahmasi… if

Can’t the two

you prefer.

of us be

friends?

This time I came to you, instead of running away from you

like a rat.

The mortals disappear around us, so we can only get attached to them for a few decades.

Think about it, please...

... Only you and I can be together for long periods of time, forever.

Maybe you’re right.

We’re the

only ones

You look tired.

who can

Take this, drink tell each

it up.

other what

we’ve been

through.

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In this glass is hatred, a feeling that dies out only as time goes by.

But...

You’ve

Ha! It worked.

He told me

poisoned me!

The potion of

that this poison Ghhhhhh!

the old magician was the most

is still working!!

powerful killing substance on

earth. And he

was right! It

killed you, nameless boy! Finally!

You’re gone

forever!

Tlan

But...

The sun brought you And I, who trusts no back to life again.

one, trusted a man.

I hate you, Merlin!

You’ll pay

for this!

Not even the biggest But he

magician of all time was useless

can end our stigma.

in helping

me with my

mission - to

kill the boy.

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And of course, the poor old

magician paid

And I know how for it.

you did it, if Sir Thomas Mallory’s words are true, which I’ll never stop repeating.

“Then

Merlin

started

“The young

hitting on

lady was

a lady

kind to him

named

until he

Nenyve. He

taught

would keep

her all his

her away

magic.

from

Merlin

sunlight or

was mad

shadow

about

and was

her.”

always with

her.”

“She was

so sly

that she

“One

got

“Then she

day the

Merlin

uttered a

magician

to go

spell and

showed

beneath

Merlin

her a

that

stayed

stone,

stone, so

under the

with a

he could

stone

big

tell her

forever in

power

more

spite of his

lying

about

magical

under-

the

powers.”

neath.”

miracles

hidden

under-

neath.”

“Then she

went away and

left him alone for all of

time.”

Mallory wrote

that. I know that it was you who erased Merlin from the face of the earth. I Id...

wondered for a long tome if he had fallen victim to your spell.

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... Idiot. It was enough to throw his old bones in a swamp and spread the word that his magic had been incarnated in me, so the stupid mortals would invent a legend.

Whoa! You

can’t move, but I see you can

talk again.

The secret of

The sun will rise This is the end how to finish an soon, boy.

of you.

immortal.

I’ll be able

These gentlemen around And now that I to move after

me are heirs of the heirs know how...

exposing myself And then

of the Egyptian priests to sunlight,

nothing,

who took care of the and then...

Ahmasi.

secret.

I’m taking

Take a good

... I’ll kill you blood out

look, Ahmasi,

Red dense

myself.

of my veins.

because this

blood, Ahmasi.

is the last

thing you’ll

Pass me

ever see.

the syringe,

Urgot.

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You know why?

... A story about It’s been so long that I the blood of

almost forgot about it. A the immortals.

I think I do, you beggar, on whose blood I fed son of a bitch.

myself in the desert, told me a story...

Yes, you heard well. The blood of the immortals

- the priest who taught me so much told me...

... The blood

of an immortal can kill other immortals.

At the time I

thought these

But now I finally Please, wait!

were the

understand that words of a

he was telling lunatic.

the truth.

What?

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All this time I The only thing that Including the

was only playing helped spice up my last time you

a game.

dull life.

showed up.

Don’t be

It was back

stupid. Killing Besides, you

in the ’40s

immortals is

were always an just a game.

easy prey.

Do you remember what you said that afternoon when it was raining cats and dogs?

Of course, I do.

Don’t run

from me! You’ll never escape

anyway.

I’m tired,

Ahmasi.

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Sometimes I think I must have done some terrible things to you.

You’re the

only being in

Sometimes

the world

I think I

like me, and

really don’t

you hate me.

deserve to

live.

I don’t under-

stand this! You reappeared

after fifty

years and

have changed

so much.

Stop it.

I can’t

take this

I can’t.

anymore.

I’ll just bury myself in a place where no one will find me ever again, so I could see the light of the

Father Sun.

People

Like the old

you killed

Indian who lived mercilessly.

on the roof of And his

a skyscraper.

little niece,

Evening Cloud, I met

who barely

some good

knew what

people.

love was

before she

died.

And

Fever’s lover

Lamont, whom

she loved so

much.

And Apollonia, the wise black woman, who took care of Fever

because she

was blind.

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Now that I know you’ve won, I can be your friend, your slave; I’ll grovel before your feet, I’ll do anything you want, but please, don’t take this gift from

me!

You killed

And for this

... You filthy everyone I

you’ll die...

disgusting

ever loved.

priestess,

worshipper

of the

snake.

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No...

... It’s as

if you...

Ahhh...

... had

injected...

... in my

... molten lead...

veins, you

son of a

bitch

Is she

dead?

I think so.

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I can’t

feel a

pulse...

... She’s not

breathing.

Nothing.

What shall

We could hide her body, we do with the or even bury it.

body?

I don’t

think it’ll be necessary,

Fershid.

Apparently, Amanda If we leave her here, the I checked with my friends Nicanor had some local police will just from New Orleans.

unresolved business assume that the bad guys with the drug-mafia.

settled the score.

Drug dealers are According

She stole their cruel and capable of to the infor-dope money.

anything.

mation they

gave me, she

must have

disguised

Even electrocuting herself as

traitors.

this Hispanic

whore

Amanda

Nicanor in

order to

leave the

States.

We’d better

get out of

here.

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Aren’t you coming, Bye, Ahmasi.

Buddy?

I don’t think I’ll miss you.

I’m

coming,

Satya.

If Ahmasi had seen this Why did you park the car around when Fershid car so far, Urgot?

was luring her to these streets, she would have suspected that something strange was going on, Mr.

McEwan. That’s why.

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But...

No!!!

... before I

Yes,

This time I know leave this

nameless

that I’m dead...

world, I’ll leave boy, yes.

you a present.

... that the sun won’t heal my

I’ll inject

wounds...

you with the

substance I took from my veins.

... that your rotten blood in contact with mine will soon finish me forever, but...

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If your blood

killed me...

Mine will

kill you.

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... she is

dead.

And

you? What

Now...

about you,

Buddy?

Do you feel

It’s so weird.

okay?

I... I don’t

I feel like

know.

crying.

I feel as if

a rope I was

hanging on was suddenly cut.

As if some-

one suddenly set me free.

Don’t you die

on me, Buddy,

please.

“A few years have passed since then.”

“I thought that after Lamont’s death I’d never be able to

love again.”

Fever!!!

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“But I was wrong.

I didn’t know then how generous and noble Fershid is.”

“We’ve lived

together since those unpleasant events.”

Are

you going

to the

Yes.

cemetery?

I’ll go with

“I go there

you.

every month -

to the place

where she is

buried.”

“I wanna make

sure that she’s still there.”

“So many things have happened...”

I studied the

words of the

ancient priests and I think I know what is happening to you.

“... Since the oldest of

the McEwan

brothers, the

one who died

two years ago, said those

words while

looking at my

nameless boy.”

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Ahmasi’s blood, although weakened because she was about to die, will kill you too.

My

goodness.

Don’t be scared, Fever. You won’t But... you just From now on, this lose another

Yes, he’ll die… like said he’d die.

boy is a silly and who you cherish me or you or that lovely mortal being.

so much.

little girl Satya.

Thank

But I don’t

heavens.

know when.

Do you under-

stand now?

Since that day his name The woman who gives was Buddy forever. I gave him a name to a child must that name, and that evening be called “mom,” don’t he asked me...

you agree?

Can I call

Why?

you mom?

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“It was so nice to watch him... or should I say ‘be aware of him’ growing up.”

“... Becoming a young man.”

“And being

dazzled by the discovery of his belated sexual drive.”

“I’m half witch and I always

thought he

was going to

marry Satya.”

“But I was wrong. He always treated her like a sister.”

“Last week he introduced his new girlfriend to me and told me he was going to marry her.”

Here we

are. This is

her tomb,

my love.

Tell me

We’re

what the tomb

here.

looks like.

“We’ll see.He

likes women

too much.

Except those

from the family the four of us have created. ”

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There isn’t

a cross. Only

the name Amanda Nicanor and the years of her

birth and death engraved on the headstone.

Nothing

else?

No.

Take my

hand. I wanna

touch it.

I’m sure you’ll Yes, it’s still think I’m crazy, in one piece.

but do you re-

Of course,

member that two I do. And I

years ago the

also remem-

headstone was

ber what the

split in two?

masons you

hired to

reinforce it

told you.

That the roots of the trees

had split it.

Hmm... I

know.

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Which is why

I’ll be checking this tomb every week for the

rest of my

life.

But I

never really

believed

that.

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