Chapter 5.

True Lies.

The boy was sweating, his eyes were crying and pleading for understanding, until he said: ¿Remember that night it was raining and lightning was falling? Here, on that same night, I was looking out the living room window with a hot chocolate in my hands, I had a half-eaten marshmallow, and I saw him walk by...

It was someone dressed entirely in black. He was tall, very tall. I couldn't see his face. There were two other people, and they were hurrying. The police were still patrolling the areas near the house. They started arguing. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I hid behind the curtain. I was scared, very scared...

It was then that the officers' flashlights began to become noticeable, and then they dropped a bag in the garden and ran away quickly. I couldn't see where they escaped to.

 I was scared, so scared. I thought I was going to die, and when I discreetly opened the window, I ventured out and grabbed that black bag. It was large and heavy. But then I heard a moan coming from inside the bag. 

The flashlights were nearby, so I went back into the house with the bag and ran upstairs to the bedroom, turning off all the lights and locking the door...

When I opened it, it was her. I didn't know what to do and just wanted to help her. I'd heard about keeping a person hydrated with IV drips, and that's what I did. I cleaned her up, treated her minor wounds, but I didn't do it rudely. 

I didn't want to hurt her. I thought that once she recovered, I could take her straight to her parents' house and deliver her. I didn't want to hurt her, and that's the whole truth.

Her parents believed this and immediately hugged him, assuring him that he hadn't done anything wrong, but rather that he was acting as a savior, a hero, and that this demonstrated the bravery and honor of his family. However, the girl couldn't remain in that tiny place...

So, his father and mother told him that a special recovery room could be set up in the basement for the girl. After moving her out of that small place, her mother began calling her son to watch for any changes. 

His father would be in charge of bringing new medical formulas not yet approved by the Ministry of Health, but which might work for the girl, since she was partially blind and had trauma-mutism...

It was then that they decided to operate on her there, in that special recovery room. They operated on her several times. His parents performed the operation, but the boy had to be there watching live and helping them pass the instruments...

To repair her limbs, they inserted nails and screws and gave her the best unauthorized treatments. So, for years, it remained there as untold secret between both families, one that, as time passed, began to fade from the Tempus family's life, but that began to consolidate in the Nihilborn family's...

By the time Richthofen was 15, the girl could already walk, not at such high speeds, but she still couldn't see. However, there was a strange peculiarity that occurred every last quarter moon, and it was as if an intense pain increased 100 times over her body. 

This led to drastic measures being implemented during the last quarter moon, such as putting her in straitjackets or tying her to the bed in the basement. Some rabbits that managed to sneak in before the basement was closed during that lunar passage ended up completely dry. 

She would extract every last drop of blood from them, becoming violent and savage during that lunar phase, but when that cycle ended, everything returned to normal.