November 18, 2025 • 37 mins
In a series of therapy sessions, a young woman recounts her obsessive romance with a mysterious musician who may not be human at all.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Rereadings at bien Veniels, Fellow seekers of the dark.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Danny Threne.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome to nocturnal tales from the Shadow. By the enchanted
frames of this fire, we transcend time and space to
enter the darkest depths of the Latin American imagination, legend
and lore, passed down through the years and retold with
(00:36):
a twist.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Tonight's inspiration comes from Guatemala, where the folks say young
women may sometimes find themselves visited by a tall man
dressed in black, big white brimed.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hat, silver spur boots.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
He sings beneath their window and pulls them into his spell.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
But tonight that legend has traveled.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
To the miss soaked town of the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Okay, all right, come on in betta.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Take a seat.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Oh okay, surprise, you're choosing the left side of the couch.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Interesting.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
I know I always sit on the right side. I
guess it's sort of stuck.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
That is your spot. But what has gotten you unstuck today?
I don't know. Can I make a few observations please?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
So first, it's been almost one year to the day
that you started your sobriety journey.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Oh, my God, you're right, it's huge.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
And maybe moving from the right side of the couch
to the left is your psyche's way of telling us
that something major has shifted in you. Maybe, just maybe
something wants to be acknowledged by us in the room today.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
Actually, yes, there is something I wanted to tell you about. God,
I feel like a teenager.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
Okay, so spill it.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Well, I met someone, Carmen, It's crazy. He's straight out
of a dream.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
You met someone bt, Oh this is big? Wow? Wow?
How did you to me?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
So? My best friend Luis dragged me to this weird
little open mic night over on Hawthorne. Okay, they only
serve mocktails, very Portland. So it was his attempt to,
you know, have a night out without the booze, the
booz booz. It was a sweet gesture, but to be honest,
I was so bored. Just a lot of amateurs now.
Speaker 9 (03:05):
Roses red like my blood when when I lead violets,
blue like my lips when I forget to breathe. Love
is the ghost that.
Speaker 10 (03:18):
I text in my in my sleep.
Speaker 11 (03:20):
What okay, everybody, let's hear it for Bobby.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
You see, though I don't know how much more of
this I can take?
Speaker 12 (03:34):
Just pretend it's a comedy show.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Okay, shit, girl.
Speaker 12 (03:39):
Don't be obvious, but we have a catch behind you
by the bar. Tll mysterious dressed in black boots for days. Okay,
and that happens. Looks like Zoro and Dracula had a
god little baby, hot goth baby.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Shut up. You're gonna make me spill my compata Sunrise
or whatever this is.
Speaker 12 (03:59):
You better not, because he is definitely making eyes at you.
Speaker 9 (04:04):
You guys ready for some more?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Next up, we have last.
Speaker 10 (04:09):
Oh he's going to stay.
Speaker 13 (04:18):
I dedicate this song for the.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Blood.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Why is the.
Speaker 13 (04:37):
Gray to my song?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Very bread to my show?
Speaker 7 (04:52):
He's really good?
Speaker 12 (04:54):
Oh she's done for.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Ah too?
Speaker 13 (05:03):
Me bhm.
Speaker 14 (05:09):
So so.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
He looked into my eyes the entire night. I don't
even know how to explain it. It felt like there
was nobody else in the room.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
That all.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
It sounds very intense.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Yeah, it was in the best way, and it only
got better.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
All right, Well tell me tell me, m.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
M oh, what's wrong?
Speaker 15 (05:46):
Tiger?
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Are you hungry? Why? Okay, I'm gonna go shack Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
M h.
Speaker 14 (06:02):
What are you doing here? It's the middle of the night.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about your voice. Yes,
I need to see you. Can I come in?
Speaker 14 (06:17):
Mmm?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Yes, but only if you can climb through my window.
Speaker 16 (06:22):
Okay, I was kidding, Tiger, don't be mean.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
It's just my friend.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
It's that dull. I am a friend.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
A friend. I want to kiss.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Your hair.
Speaker 13 (06:56):
It's so long, so beautiful, like a river at night.
Let me braid it for you.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
I let him braid my hair. I don't even let
my mother do that. His hands were so gentle and firm.
At the same time, we stayed up all nights talking talking.
Speaker 17 (07:32):
M mom, what is it?
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I was streaming.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
I thought you were dead, Bronica. It's almost noon. You
haven't moved, you know.
Speaker 17 (07:50):
Oh wow, mihah, you braided your hair. My little Puda,
all grown up.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
I'm twenty five, mom.
Speaker 17 (08:00):
So you're still my baby. You know you got your
grandmother's hair, thick and dark like mine, but your father's skin.
Speaker 10 (08:10):
I s so see my getting ghita.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I hate it when you call me that.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
You didn't sleep well.
Speaker 17 (08:17):
Did you you look like a raccoon?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Jeez?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Thanks a lot.
Speaker 17 (08:23):
What I'm just making an observation. I lift some cafecito
in the kitchen.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Ye love you, mom.
Speaker 11 (08:39):
Hi, good morning, my princess. Tell me do you have
plans tonight?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Tonight? I can't. I have my an a meeting.
Speaker 11 (08:50):
Please beat me by the river. I need to see you.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
I can't.
Speaker 11 (08:55):
Who needs an when you have Lazaro?
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Fine, I'll do it. How do I feel like I'm
in a fairy tale with you? Is it bad that
I don't regret not going to NA tonight?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Do you know what?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I think?
Speaker 13 (09:23):
That stuff is like a cult for weak people who
need something to cling to at all. Seriously, when I
look into your eyes, I don't see an addict. I
see a strong, beautiful woman who makes her own decisions.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Okay, that's It's very sweet of you.
Speaker 14 (09:43):
M hmm.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
It's like shit text from Louise. He's asking why, mister
n A. Is it okay if I call him real quick?
So who doesn't worry?
Speaker 13 (09:54):
It'll We are here together beneath the stars, in this
sake moment that we'll never hold again. We need to
protect these moments. Put your phone away in.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
My moment it's Luise.
Speaker 13 (10:09):
Take on other people's worries. Breathe with me, Take a
deep breath, Holy, come to four now release for one, two, three, four.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Okay, I'm here with you.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
If you want to go for a swim.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Jeff Right, it's October and an organ nobody swims. It's
freezing and oh it's sort of embarrassing. But I can't.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I can't swim, So then I'll teach you the coldest
part of the beauty. It wakes the soul.
Speaker 13 (10:53):
Nobody can see us, but the moon don't be shy.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Okay, exactly freezing.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
You Just take my hand deep.
Speaker 18 (11:16):
Sweet to me, you can do I can't.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
I was drowning.
Speaker 13 (11:45):
I would never let that happen. You surrendered to the river,
that's all. Look yow isn't cheap beautiful?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
So things moved pretty fast between you and Lasaro. Maybe
too fast.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Not with him, he's he's different.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Yes, he's very romantic with you. Are you familiar with
the concept of love bombing?
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Oh, it's not like that at all. Lats of time.
I was just old school, you know. He just really
sees me for who I am and makes me feel
like I belong somewhere.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
That's that's powerful to feel seen, especially when you've spent
your life feeling in between.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Has your mom met him.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Uh, yeah, of course she likes him a lot.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
That's wonderful. And your NA meetings, how are they going?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Good, Yeah, they've they've been they've been good.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
You're tired. You mentioned staying up all night. Is this
a pattern with you too?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I mean, we love the night. I've been feeling so
inspired by all the different sounds and the moon, and
since meeting him, I guess, I guess I don't just
I don't need as much sleep, as much sleep, as
much sleep. Maybe we should sleep, my love, it's.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
So late, you know, we don't need as much sleep
as they say.
Speaker 13 (13:34):
The night feeds us in waste the daytime cat, but
we have to learn to stay awake.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Let me show you something.
Speaker 14 (13:43):
What h.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Oo velvet bouch mysterious?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
What is that sugar?
Speaker 13 (13:56):
Okay, harvested under the full moon, never exposed to sunlight.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Here, Open your mouth.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Mm hmmm mmmmm, so sweet but earthy somehow.
Speaker 13 (14:15):
Close your eyes.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
What do you feel?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
I feel awake but also heavy. I don't know, but
it feels good. What is this magic sugar?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Mm hmm okay, just the magic of the moonlight.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Keep it with you.
Speaker 13 (14:40):
Eat a little each night and you'll stay away together,
we feel everything.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
The night has.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
To Okay, I like that.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
I like that, Vito, miha lit miha?
Speaker 7 (15:10):
What is it?
Speaker 10 (15:11):
M m mikha? Are you okay? You been't sleeping all day?
Speaker 7 (15:18):
You look like I know raccoon. You said that last time.
Speaker 14 (15:23):
I'm just tired.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Okay, your hands feel cold? I'm fine. Mom?
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Where were you last night? You didn't come home until morning?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Is that what? Louise?
Speaker 10 (15:39):
Are you still going to your meetings?
Speaker 14 (15:40):
What?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Of course?
Speaker 10 (15:43):
Why would you ask me that.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I have to get this?
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Oh?
Speaker 19 (15:50):
Who is that?
Speaker 7 (15:51):
It's just a friend. Can I have some privacy?
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Please? Sure?
Speaker 10 (15:55):
Miha?
Speaker 11 (16:00):
Hi mea Moore PRINCESSA how would you like to go
to a cabin with me next week? One midnight of
the eclipse?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Ooh a cabin?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Where is it?
Speaker 11 (16:12):
It's a secret? Pack a bag for three days and
don't tell anyone.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Ooh secrets? How romantic? I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I I am glad to hear your feelings so inspired, Vetro,
But I wonder if that inspiration might also be pulling
you out of balance. You've worked hard for your stability,
and I'd hate to see you lose that hope.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
I'm not losing anything. I'm gaining so much. I feel
more loved and alive than ever.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Well, there's our time, so same time next Friday.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Actually, lass it on. I are going away for the eclipse.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Where you go?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
It's a surprise, laws, it'll like surprises.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
Mm hmm, I guess they packed the right shoes.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
You're looking perfect?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Is this the cabin? I?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You don't like it?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
It's it's an abandoned.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
House exactly, a place owned by nobody. Like weed and insects.
It's perfect and tonight it's ours after you, my lady?
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Is this is this?
Speaker 10 (17:45):
It im legal?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
That'd be like an airbnber or something.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
H What does that smell?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's like rotten eggs or something.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
God, you don't make something dying here, do you?
Speaker 13 (18:04):
I'm sure of it. It's the cycle of life, maam.
Rats raccoons they too have to die somewhere. But it's
nothing to fear. The smell of death. It opens the
senses if you let it. Society has become so sterile.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Wow, cats really hate you.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
They are jealous creatures.
Speaker 13 (18:35):
When they see a man with a beautiful woman, they
can't stand it.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Come, I want to show you something.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
What is this room. So many candles?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Is that an altar?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
It's for you?
Speaker 14 (19:05):
No way, How did you do that?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
How'd you light them without even touching them?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
The moon taught me no.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Seriously, are they electric candles or something? How are you
doing this?
Speaker 13 (19:18):
Please just sitah Mar. I have a very special song
I want to play for you.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Okay, you're full of surprises.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
This song, it's very old and old song.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Lovers, there's an owl in the house.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Close your eyes, have more. Just listen to this song.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Let it in.
Speaker 14 (19:50):
Love? Why it is them? To my song?
Speaker 13 (20:05):
Grey a fresh to my.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
B is the.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Widest, the.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Bye er too.
Speaker 13 (20:27):
By, and so.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
I feel I feel sizzier.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So I know this song.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I trumps of it.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
No, it was a nightmare.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I was.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
My mouth was fool.
Speaker 13 (20:50):
Full of what was it?
Speaker 14 (20:52):
Food?
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Dirt?
Speaker 7 (20:55):
It was full of dirt.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
It's sleep now, my love our red one of the case.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
There there? Where did you just go? Then?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
You you seem to dissociate a bit. You were humming something.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Oh sorry, I must have zoned out.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
That's okay. How did your trip go?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
What trip?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
The surprise Lazaro Land for you?
Speaker 15 (21:33):
Oh right, Honestly, it's all kind of a blur. I
can't really remember. Yeah, everything feels really that'd be tell
me about what you're going on?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Going on?
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Okay, little why are you eating?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I'm just not very hungry tonight.
Speaker 17 (22:01):
Sorry, Momham we need to talk.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
I found this in your room.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Mom, you went there my stuff? That that's mine? What
is it? It's just sugar, mom, it's organic they harvested
under the moon.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
This isn't sugar.
Speaker 17 (22:18):
It's there and smells road and I'm going to throw
it away.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
No sacred, but I can get it.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
I'll give it to you.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
How do you know his name?
Speaker 14 (22:31):
What?
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Louise told me?
Speaker 17 (22:32):
Everything he says, you stop calling him and you stop
going to meeting till every since.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
You met this Lassattle guy?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Who is he?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I can't believe this. Where are you going? None of
your business?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
You don't have a jacket, Louise.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
I can't believe you talked to my mom behind my back.
Speaker 18 (22:56):
I didn't know what else to do.
Speaker 14 (22:58):
I'm worried about you. I'm worried that lot was hurting you.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
You're just jealous. You don't understand what we have.
Speaker 12 (23:07):
Don't sound like yourself.
Speaker 20 (23:09):
Fuck you, Louise, unless I know I feel like everyone every.
Speaker 13 (23:24):
Day, people just get in the way of what you're becoming.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
He just doesn't understand.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Let me. I want to show him how much I
love you.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
You do that for me, anything for me?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Mid sessions?
Speaker 10 (23:58):
Please?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
What the fuck?
Speaker 18 (24:01):
Beta?
Speaker 12 (24:04):
Hello, No way, I'm not going in there?
Speaker 13 (24:08):
Better?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Fuck?
Speaker 14 (24:17):
Fuck?
Speaker 10 (24:20):
Oh my god?
Speaker 21 (24:22):
Am I here?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
No, Bettle, I'm here?
Speaker 14 (24:28):
What is that.
Speaker 13 (24:33):
They got?
Speaker 14 (24:34):
It's you?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
What the fuck is this place?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Is this some kind of prank? I thought we were gonna.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Talk shit, Bettle, mettal why aren't you moving?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Wish? What's wrong with her?
Speaker 4 (24:50):
She says, sleep, don't wake her, but.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Her eyes are open.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
What did you do to her?
Speaker 14 (24:58):
That is no?
Speaker 13 (25:00):
I love your concern.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I'm probably nine one one.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'm afraid not.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
Veto wake up little Wake up?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Mom?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
What's wrong?
Speaker 10 (25:21):
I'm sleeping in the hospital. He's not waking up.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
What well?
Speaker 10 (25:27):
Did you see him last night?
Speaker 7 (25:29):
No? We had to fight on the phone. That's that's
the last thing I remember.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
We have to go. Let's go.
Speaker 15 (25:36):
Luis was unconscious when I got to the hospital. They
don't know if he'll ever wake up. There's no explanation
for it.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
The lack of resolution, the guilt and uncertainty. Oh, veto
that is an enormous burden to carry, it is.
Speaker 15 (25:54):
It's really sad, but life is just like that, you know.
We just have to accept that everything comes and goes.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Well.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Yes, but Louise has been your best friend since childhood.
It's it's important to grieve, Verro.
Speaker 15 (26:16):
Louise and I were starting to drift apart. Last A
says not to dwell on what we can't change.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
I have to be honest with you, Verro. I've noticed
a change in you since that strip with Lazaro. I'd
like you to try and see if you can remember anything,
anything at all about that weekend.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
It's all a blur. Okay, Well, are.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
There any fragments or sense impressions, anything at all?
Speaker 15 (26:47):
There was.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
An owl, I think, okay, an owl?
Speaker 10 (26:54):
Candles?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Huh, lots of candles?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Anything else?
Speaker 7 (27:01):
I'm feeling a little tired, that's okay.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Listen, this situation with Louise.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
It's traumatic, even if you don't feel it right now,
it deserves to be processed. I'm glad you're not letting
it weigh you down, but grief needs time and space.
I think it might help to spend some time alone
away from Lazarro, just to make space to really feel
(27:28):
this loss.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Is that something you'd be willing to try vit all?
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Yeah, okay, I can try.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
That's a good stuff.
Speaker 14 (27:50):
Hello, you've reached Vettel and assistant Louise.
Speaker 12 (27:53):
If you're getting this message.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Gave me a message. I'll get back to you as
soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Bye.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Hi Veto, This is Carmen. I am calling to check in.
You missed your session today and I'm worried about you.
Please please just call me when you can. Hi Blar,
this is Carmen Montoya, your daughter Pharaoh's therapist. I'm sorry
to bother you, but she missed today's session without notice.
(28:27):
I've been a little concerned about her well being and
you were listed as one of her emergency contacts. Can
you please call me back at five zero three.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Hi, Carmen Betro, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
I'm late.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
You made it. Please please sit down. That O, what
is going on?
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Moved out of my mom's house. It was time. The
situation was becoming very toxic.
Speaker 17 (28:54):
You're not sleeping, you're not eating, You're you're wasting away.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
You're always judging me, smuting me. I'm not your little
girl anymore. Yes, Hodo is that man.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
Isn't it done something to you? I just don't recognize
you anymore.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Maybe you never did. Please, I'm out of your nose.
You can't live here anymore. I hate you.
Speaker 22 (29:22):
Ol A Mika, please come home, Please, Taka, I know,
I know.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
More.
Speaker 10 (29:40):
Veto will come back, I promise you. Vetto is that you?
Who's there? It's you? What have you done to my daughter?
(30:01):
I know who you are.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
I heard of you.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
How do you.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
So you've cut ties completely with your mother?
Speaker 14 (30:32):
Then?
Speaker 7 (30:33):
At least for now?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
And Lazarro, did you take any space? Like we talked about?
Speaker 7 (30:39):
There's no space between us.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Carmen, I am. I'm sorry to have to ask you this.
Have you been using again?
Speaker 7 (30:53):
I remembered what happened on the weekend away? Do you
want to know?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Yes? Please tell me?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Black is.
Speaker 21 (31:11):
Why is the ray.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
To my song?
Speaker 13 (31:21):
Ray?
Speaker 21 (31:23):
Bread to my soul? Black is the ear? Why is
them wye.
Speaker 14 (31:39):
Here to.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
B and soul?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
It was the third night?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Do you bind yourself to me?
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Yes? My love, body, body and soul.
Speaker 23 (32:02):
I felt him reaching on my braid. He took it
in his hand and it came alive. It was my
soul writhing in my braid like a fat wax snake.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Most all these.
Speaker 15 (32:18):
Big brass scissors with strange markings.
Speaker 23 (32:21):
On the blades, and with those he severed my braid
and he swallowed it all.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
I felt my soul leave and something else come in
the next morning. My hair had all grown back, but
it was black and coarse, like the hair of a beast.
That's how he married me.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Vitrole.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Do you ever wonder if Lazaro is someone your mind
created to help you cope in the absence of drugs,
someone who feels real, but maybe, isn't it? What's so funny?
Speaker 7 (33:21):
If you don't believe me, you can meet him yourself.
He's on his way as we speak. He's heard so
much about.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
You, he's coming here.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
This is highly inappropriate, a complete violation of boundaries.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
There are no boundaries with last adult. He wanted to
be here when I said.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Goodbye, when you said goodbye.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
He doesn't think you're good for me anymore.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
I'd like to refer you to an inpatient facility.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
I think that they would listen. What do you hear that?
Speaker 14 (33:52):
What he's here now?
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Love at first sight is a real thing, guys, I
hear Verro and her mystery men are very happy these days.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Expecting their first litter of demons.
Speaker 8 (34:48):
See you next time or noctor no Nocturno.
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Rereadings at bien Veniels, Fellow seekers of the dark.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I'm Danny Threne.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome to nocturnal tales from the Shadow. By the enchanted
frames of this fire, we transcend time and space to
enter the darkest depths of the Latin American imagination, legend
and lore, passed down through the years and retold with
(00:36):
a twist.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Tonight's inspiration comes from Guatemala, where the folks say young
women may sometimes find themselves visited by a tall man
dressed in black, big white brimed.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hat, silver spur boots.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
He sings beneath their window and pulls them into his spell.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
But tonight that legend has traveled.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
To the miss soaked town of the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Okay, all right, come on in betta.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Take a seat.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Oh okay, surprise, you're choosing the left side of the couch.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Interesting.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
I know I always sit on the right side. I
guess it's sort of stuck.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
That is your spot. But what has gotten you unstuck today?
I don't know. Can I make a few observations please?
Speaker 6 (01:51):
So first, it's been almost one year to the day
that you started your sobriety journey.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Oh, my God, you're right, it's huge.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
And maybe moving from the right side of the couch
to the left is your psyche's way of telling us
that something major has shifted in you. Maybe, just maybe
something wants to be acknowledged by us in the room today.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
Actually, yes, there is something I wanted to tell you about. God,
I feel like a teenager.
Speaker 8 (02:24):
Okay, so spill it.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Well, I met someone, Carmen, It's crazy. He's straight out
of a dream.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
You met someone bt, Oh this is big? Wow? Wow?
How did you to me?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
So? My best friend Luis dragged me to this weird
little open mic night over on Hawthorne. Okay, they only
serve mocktails, very Portland. So it was his attempt to,
you know, have a night out without the booze, the
booz booz. It was a sweet gesture, but to be honest,
I was so bored. Just a lot of amateurs now.
Speaker 9 (03:05):
Roses red like my blood when when I lead violets,
blue like my lips when I forget to breathe. Love
is the ghost that.
Speaker 10 (03:18):
I text in my in my sleep.
Speaker 11 (03:20):
What okay, everybody, let's hear it for Bobby.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
You see, though I don't know how much more of
this I can take?
Speaker 12 (03:34):
Just pretend it's a comedy show.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Okay, shit, girl.
Speaker 12 (03:39):
Don't be obvious, but we have a catch behind you
by the bar. Tll mysterious dressed in black boots for days. Okay,
and that happens. Looks like Zoro and Dracula had a
god little baby, hot goth baby.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Shut up. You're gonna make me spill my compata Sunrise
or whatever this is.
Speaker 12 (03:59):
You better not, because he is definitely making eyes at you.
Speaker 9 (04:04):
You guys ready for some more?
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Next up, we have last.
Speaker 10 (04:09):
Oh he's going to stay.
Speaker 13 (04:18):
I dedicate this song for the.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Blood.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Why is the.
Speaker 13 (04:37):
Gray to my song?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Very bread to my show?
Speaker 7 (04:52):
He's really good?
Speaker 12 (04:54):
Oh she's done for.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Ah too?
Speaker 13 (05:03):
Me bhm.
Speaker 14 (05:09):
So so.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
He looked into my eyes the entire night. I don't
even know how to explain it. It felt like there
was nobody else in the room.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
That all.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
It sounds very intense.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Yeah, it was in the best way, and it only
got better.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
All right, Well tell me tell me, m.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
M oh, what's wrong?
Speaker 15 (05:46):
Tiger?
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Are you hungry? Why? Okay, I'm gonna go shack Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
M h.
Speaker 14 (06:02):
What are you doing here? It's the middle of the night.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about your voice. Yes,
I need to see you. Can I come in?
Speaker 14 (06:17):
Mmm?
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Yes, but only if you can climb through my window.
Speaker 16 (06:22):
Okay, I was kidding, Tiger, don't be mean.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
It's just my friend.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
It's that dull. I am a friend.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
A friend. I want to kiss.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
Your hair.
Speaker 13 (06:56):
It's so long, so beautiful, like a river at night.
Let me braid it for you.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
I let him braid my hair. I don't even let
my mother do that. His hands were so gentle and firm.
At the same time, we stayed up all nights talking talking.
Speaker 17 (07:32):
M mom, what is it?
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I was streaming.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
I thought you were dead, Bronica. It's almost noon. You
haven't moved, you know.
Speaker 17 (07:50):
Oh wow, mihah, you braided your hair. My little Puda,
all grown up.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
I'm twenty five, mom.
Speaker 17 (08:00):
So you're still my baby. You know you got your
grandmother's hair, thick and dark like mine, but your father's skin.
Speaker 10 (08:10):
I s so see my getting ghita.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
I hate it when you call me that.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
You didn't sleep well.
Speaker 17 (08:17):
Did you you look like a raccoon?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Jeez?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Thanks a lot.
Speaker 17 (08:23):
What I'm just making an observation. I lift some cafecito
in the kitchen.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Ye love you, mom.
Speaker 11 (08:39):
Hi, good morning, my princess. Tell me do you have
plans tonight?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Tonight? I can't. I have my an a meeting.
Speaker 11 (08:50):
Please beat me by the river. I need to see you.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
I can't.
Speaker 11 (08:55):
Who needs an when you have Lazaro?
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Fine, I'll do it. How do I feel like I'm
in a fairy tale with you? Is it bad that
I don't regret not going to NA tonight?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Do you know what?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I think?
Speaker 13 (09:23):
That stuff is like a cult for weak people who
need something to cling to at all. Seriously, when I
look into your eyes, I don't see an addict. I
see a strong, beautiful woman who makes her own decisions.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Okay, that's It's very sweet of you.
Speaker 14 (09:43):
M hmm.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
It's like shit text from Louise. He's asking why, mister
n A. Is it okay if I call him real quick?
So who doesn't worry?
Speaker 13 (09:54):
It'll We are here together beneath the stars, in this
sake moment that we'll never hold again. We need to
protect these moments. Put your phone away in.
Speaker 7 (10:06):
My moment it's Luise.
Speaker 13 (10:09):
Take on other people's worries. Breathe with me, Take a
deep breath, Holy, come to four now release for one, two, three, four.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
Okay, I'm here with you.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
If you want to go for a swim.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Jeff Right, it's October and an organ nobody swims. It's
freezing and oh it's sort of embarrassing. But I can't.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I can't swim, So then I'll teach you the coldest
part of the beauty. It wakes the soul.
Speaker 13 (10:53):
Nobody can see us, but the moon don't be shy.
Speaker 7 (10:58):
Okay, exactly freezing.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
You Just take my hand deep.
Speaker 18 (11:16):
Sweet to me, you can do I can't.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
I was drowning.
Speaker 13 (11:45):
I would never let that happen. You surrendered to the river,
that's all. Look yow isn't cheap beautiful?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
So things moved pretty fast between you and Lasaro. Maybe
too fast.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Not with him, he's he's different.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Yes, he's very romantic with you. Are you familiar with
the concept of love bombing?
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Oh, it's not like that at all. Lats of time.
I was just old school, you know. He just really
sees me for who I am and makes me feel
like I belong somewhere.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
That's that's powerful to feel seen, especially when you've spent
your life feeling in between.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Has your mom met him.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Uh, yeah, of course she likes him a lot.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
That's wonderful. And your NA meetings, how are they going?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Good, Yeah, they've they've been they've been good.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
You're tired. You mentioned staying up all night. Is this
a pattern with you too?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I mean, we love the night. I've been feeling so
inspired by all the different sounds and the moon, and
since meeting him, I guess, I guess I don't just
I don't need as much sleep, as much sleep, as
much sleep. Maybe we should sleep, my love, it's.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
So late, you know, we don't need as much sleep
as they say.
Speaker 13 (13:34):
The night feeds us in waste the daytime cat, but
we have to learn to stay awake.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Let me show you something.
Speaker 14 (13:43):
What h.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Oo velvet bouch mysterious?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
What is that sugar?
Speaker 13 (13:56):
Okay, harvested under the full moon, never exposed to sunlight.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Here, Open your mouth.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
Mm hmmm mmmmm, so sweet but earthy somehow.
Speaker 13 (14:15):
Close your eyes.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
What do you feel?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
I feel awake but also heavy. I don't know, but
it feels good. What is this magic sugar?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Mm hmm okay, just the magic of the moonlight.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Keep it with you.
Speaker 13 (14:40):
Eat a little each night and you'll stay away together,
we feel everything.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
The night has.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
To Okay, I like that.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
I like that, Vito, miha lit miha?
Speaker 7 (15:10):
What is it?
Speaker 10 (15:11):
M m mikha? Are you okay? You been't sleeping all day?
Speaker 7 (15:18):
You look like I know raccoon. You said that last time.
Speaker 14 (15:23):
I'm just tired.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Okay, your hands feel cold? I'm fine. Mom?
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Where were you last night? You didn't come home until morning?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Is that what? Louise?
Speaker 10 (15:39):
Are you still going to your meetings?
Speaker 14 (15:40):
What?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Of course?
Speaker 10 (15:43):
Why would you ask me that.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
I have to get this?
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Oh?
Speaker 19 (15:50):
Who is that?
Speaker 7 (15:51):
It's just a friend. Can I have some privacy?
Speaker 5 (15:52):
Please? Sure?
Speaker 10 (15:55):
Miha?
Speaker 11 (16:00):
Hi mea Moore PRINCESSA how would you like to go
to a cabin with me next week? One midnight of
the eclipse?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Ooh a cabin?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Where is it?
Speaker 11 (16:12):
It's a secret? Pack a bag for three days and
don't tell anyone.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
Ooh secrets? How romantic? I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
I I am glad to hear your feelings so inspired, Vetro,
But I wonder if that inspiration might also be pulling
you out of balance. You've worked hard for your stability,
and I'd hate to see you lose that hope.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
I'm not losing anything. I'm gaining so much. I feel
more loved and alive than ever.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Well, there's our time, so same time next Friday.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Actually, lass it on. I are going away for the eclipse.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Where you go?
Speaker 7 (17:00):
It's a surprise, laws, it'll like surprises.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
Mm hmm, I guess they packed the right shoes.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
You're looking perfect?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Is this the cabin? I?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
You don't like it?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
It's it's an abandoned.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
House exactly, a place owned by nobody. Like weed and insects.
It's perfect and tonight it's ours after you, my lady?
Speaker 8 (17:44):
Is this is this?
Speaker 10 (17:45):
It im legal?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
That'd be like an airbnber or something.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
H What does that smell?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
It's like rotten eggs or something.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
God, you don't make something dying here, do you?
Speaker 13 (18:04):
I'm sure of it. It's the cycle of life, maam.
Rats raccoons they too have to die somewhere. But it's
nothing to fear. The smell of death. It opens the
senses if you let it. Society has become so sterile.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
Wow, cats really hate you.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
They are jealous creatures.
Speaker 13 (18:35):
When they see a man with a beautiful woman, they
can't stand it.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Come, I want to show you something.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
What is this room. So many candles?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Is that an altar?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
It's for you?
Speaker 14 (19:05):
No way, How did you do that?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
How'd you light them without even touching them?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
The moon taught me no.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Seriously, are they electric candles or something? How are you
doing this?
Speaker 13 (19:18):
Please just sitah Mar. I have a very special song
I want to play for you.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Okay, you're full of surprises.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
This song, it's very old and old song.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Lovers, there's an owl in the house.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Close your eyes, have more. Just listen to this song.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Let it in.
Speaker 14 (19:50):
Love? Why it is them? To my song?
Speaker 13 (20:05):
Grey a fresh to my.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
B is the.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Widest, the.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Bye er too.
Speaker 13 (20:27):
By, and so.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
I feel I feel sizzier.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
So I know this song.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
I trumps of it.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
No, it was a nightmare.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
I was.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
My mouth was fool.
Speaker 13 (20:50):
Full of what was it?
Speaker 14 (20:52):
Food?
Speaker 11 (20:53):
Dirt?
Speaker 7 (20:55):
It was full of dirt.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
It's sleep now, my love our red one of the case.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
There there? Where did you just go? Then?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
You you seem to dissociate a bit. You were humming something.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Oh sorry, I must have zoned out.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
That's okay. How did your trip go?
Speaker 7 (21:29):
What trip?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
The surprise Lazaro Land for you?
Speaker 15 (21:33):
Oh right, Honestly, it's all kind of a blur. I
can't really remember. Yeah, everything feels really that'd be tell
me about what you're going on?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Going on?
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Okay, little why are you eating?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I'm just not very hungry tonight.
Speaker 17 (22:01):
Sorry, Momham we need to talk.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
I found this in your room.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Mom, you went there my stuff? That that's mine? What
is it? It's just sugar, mom, it's organic they harvested
under the moon.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
This isn't sugar.
Speaker 17 (22:18):
It's there and smells road and I'm going to throw
it away.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
No sacred, but I can get it.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
I'll give it to you.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
How do you know his name?
Speaker 14 (22:31):
What?
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Louise told me?
Speaker 17 (22:32):
Everything he says, you stop calling him and you stop
going to meeting till every since.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
You met this Lassattle guy?
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Who is he?
Speaker 7 (22:39):
I can't believe this. Where are you going? None of
your business?
Speaker 5 (22:46):
You don't have a jacket, Louise.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
I can't believe you talked to my mom behind my back.
Speaker 18 (22:56):
I didn't know what else to do.
Speaker 14 (22:58):
I'm worried about you. I'm worried that lot was hurting you.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
You're just jealous. You don't understand what we have.
Speaker 12 (23:07):
Don't sound like yourself.
Speaker 20 (23:09):
Fuck you, Louise, unless I know I feel like everyone every.
Speaker 13 (23:24):
Day, people just get in the way of what you're becoming.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
He just doesn't understand.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Let me. I want to show him how much I
love you.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
You do that for me, anything for me?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Mid sessions?
Speaker 10 (23:58):
Please?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
What the fuck?
Speaker 18 (24:01):
Beta?
Speaker 12 (24:04):
Hello, No way, I'm not going in there?
Speaker 13 (24:08):
Better?
Speaker 7 (24:10):
Fuck?
Speaker 14 (24:17):
Fuck?
Speaker 10 (24:20):
Oh my god?
Speaker 21 (24:22):
Am I here?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
No, Bettle, I'm here?
Speaker 14 (24:28):
What is that.
Speaker 13 (24:33):
They got?
Speaker 14 (24:34):
It's you?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
What the fuck is this place?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Is this some kind of prank? I thought we were gonna.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Talk shit, Bettle, mettal why aren't you moving?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Wish? What's wrong with her?
Speaker 4 (24:50):
She says, sleep, don't wake her, but.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Her eyes are open.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
What did you do to her?
Speaker 14 (24:58):
That is no?
Speaker 13 (25:00):
I love your concern.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I'm probably nine one one.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I'm afraid not.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
Veto wake up little Wake up?
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Mom?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
What's wrong?
Speaker 10 (25:21):
I'm sleeping in the hospital. He's not waking up.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
What well?
Speaker 10 (25:27):
Did you see him last night?
Speaker 7 (25:29):
No? We had to fight on the phone. That's that's
the last thing I remember.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
We have to go. Let's go.
Speaker 15 (25:36):
Luis was unconscious when I got to the hospital. They
don't know if he'll ever wake up. There's no explanation
for it.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
The lack of resolution, the guilt and uncertainty. Oh, veto
that is an enormous burden to carry, it is.
Speaker 15 (25:54):
It's really sad, but life is just like that, you know.
We just have to accept that everything comes and goes.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Well.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Yes, but Louise has been your best friend since childhood.
It's it's important to grieve, Verro.
Speaker 15 (26:16):
Louise and I were starting to drift apart. Last A
says not to dwell on what we can't change.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
I have to be honest with you, Verro. I've noticed
a change in you since that strip with Lazaro. I'd
like you to try and see if you can remember anything,
anything at all about that weekend.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
It's all a blur. Okay, Well, are.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
There any fragments or sense impressions, anything at all?
Speaker 15 (26:47):
There was.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
An owl, I think, okay, an owl?
Speaker 10 (26:54):
Candles?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Huh, lots of candles?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Anything else?
Speaker 7 (27:01):
I'm feeling a little tired, that's okay.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Listen, this situation with Louise.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
It's traumatic, even if you don't feel it right now,
it deserves to be processed. I'm glad you're not letting
it weigh you down, but grief needs time and space.
I think it might help to spend some time alone
away from Lazarro, just to make space to really feel
(27:28):
this loss.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Is that something you'd be willing to try vit all?
Speaker 7 (27:37):
Yeah, okay, I can try.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
That's a good stuff.
Speaker 14 (27:50):
Hello, you've reached Vettel and assistant Louise.
Speaker 12 (27:53):
If you're getting this message.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Gave me a message. I'll get back to you as
soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Bye.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
Hi Veto, This is Carmen. I am calling to check in.
You missed your session today and I'm worried about you.
Please please just call me when you can. Hi Blar,
this is Carmen Montoya, your daughter Pharaoh's therapist. I'm sorry
to bother you, but she missed today's session without notice.
(28:27):
I've been a little concerned about her well being and
you were listed as one of her emergency contacts. Can
you please call me back at five zero three.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Hi, Carmen Betro, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 10 (28:39):
I'm late.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
You made it. Please please sit down. That O, what
is going on?
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Moved out of my mom's house. It was time. The
situation was becoming very toxic.
Speaker 17 (28:54):
You're not sleeping, you're not eating, You're you're wasting away.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
You're always judging me, smuting me. I'm not your little
girl anymore. Yes, Hodo is that man.
Speaker 10 (29:03):
Isn't it done something to you? I just don't recognize
you anymore.
Speaker 7 (29:07):
Maybe you never did. Please, I'm out of your nose.
You can't live here anymore. I hate you.
Speaker 22 (29:22):
Ol A Mika, please come home, Please, Taka, I know,
I know.
Speaker 7 (29:38):
More.
Speaker 10 (29:40):
Veto will come back, I promise you. Vetto is that you?
Who's there? It's you? What have you done to my daughter?
(30:01):
I know who you are.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
I heard of you.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
How do you.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
So you've cut ties completely with your mother?
Speaker 14 (30:32):
Then?
Speaker 7 (30:33):
At least for now?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
And Lazarro, did you take any space? Like we talked about?
Speaker 7 (30:39):
There's no space between us.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Carmen, I am. I'm sorry to have to ask you this.
Have you been using again?
Speaker 7 (30:53):
I remembered what happened on the weekend away? Do you
want to know?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Yes? Please tell me?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Black is.
Speaker 21 (31:11):
Why is the ray.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
To my song?
Speaker 13 (31:21):
Ray?
Speaker 21 (31:23):
Bread to my soul? Black is the ear? Why is
them wye.
Speaker 14 (31:39):
Here to.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
B and soul?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
It was the third night?
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Do you bind yourself to me?
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Yes? My love, body, body and soul.
Speaker 23 (32:02):
I felt him reaching on my braid. He took it
in his hand and it came alive. It was my
soul writhing in my braid like a fat wax snake.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Most all these.
Speaker 15 (32:18):
Big brass scissors with strange markings.
Speaker 23 (32:21):
On the blades, and with those he severed my braid
and he swallowed it all.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
I felt my soul leave and something else come in
the next morning. My hair had all grown back, but
it was black and coarse, like the hair of a beast.
That's how he married me.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
Vitrole.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Do you ever wonder if Lazaro is someone your mind
created to help you cope in the absence of drugs,
someone who feels real, but maybe, isn't it? What's so funny?
Speaker 7 (33:21):
If you don't believe me, you can meet him yourself.
He's on his way as we speak. He's heard so
much about.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
You, he's coming here.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
This is highly inappropriate, a complete violation of boundaries.
Speaker 7 (33:35):
There are no boundaries with last adult. He wanted to
be here when I said.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Goodbye, when you said goodbye.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
He doesn't think you're good for me anymore.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
I'd like to refer you to an inpatient facility.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
I think that they would listen. What do you hear that?
Speaker 14 (33:52):
What he's here now?
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Love at first sight is a real thing, guys, I
hear Verro and her mystery men are very happy these days.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Expecting their first litter of demons.
Speaker 8 (34:48):
See you next time or noctor no Nocturno.
Speaker 19 (35:01):
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with Ihartzmichael to the Podcast Network. Produced and directed by
Luisa Luardo Castillo, developed and produced by Bettina Lopez. Executive
produced by Royal Pearson, Arlene Santana and Leo Gomez for
iHeart and Camilla Victoriano and Jojo Weinstein for Sonoro. This
(35:24):
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episode by Danny Trejo, Christina vi Adam Breda, Nick Cavet, Rodriguez,
Flor De Maria Chawa, Calizo Brewster, Raymond, Neo Renandez and
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helped by Emiliano Quintanari and Diego Campos. Casting and coordination
by Nick Milanes and Alex Gonzalez. Original song lyrics by
(36:07):
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Dominguez and Emiliano Quintanard. Voices recorded at the Invisible Studios,
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