Transit Installment 30
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In Installment 30 of Transit, Lovely regales Jessamyn with the secrets of her family tree, replete with witches, cannibals, and headhunters. We learn the secrets of the crude tattoo decorating her pelvis that so fascinates Jessamyn, the sacred serpent eagle, and the history of the magical agimat Lovely never removes from her neck.
The agimat's a powerful talisman with the power to kill, having been fashioned from the from the gold fillings and pectoral cross belonging to Father Ignacio de Jesús, who abused the villagers of the Northern Cordillera before the Spanish colonizers were driven from the Philippines. The agimat rattles with fragments of the vile priest's teeth, removed from his skull and smashed into bits after he tried to escape but was dragged back to the village and beheaded. Or so Lovely has been told by her ancestors.
Jessamyn touches the agimat at Lovely's urging but, because she is a “thirsty soul,” a "quester," Lovely explains, she suffers no ill effects. Lovely finally fesses up that she never thought the agimat was really all that dangerous. She tells Jessamyn some of her friends have touched it and are still walking around alive and well. Still, it's a good story.
I hope you will agree that Transit is a good story as well.
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