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Mateo would roll his eyes and return to his sculptures—twisted figures of saints and monsters, dreams carved in stone that no one in Valverde wanted. The village preferred practical art: functional water fountains, plain crosses for the cemetery. Mateo’s feverish, emotional pieces gathered dust in his tiny studio.

“I wish I’d never touched that thing!” he cried.

“You wished for a masterpiece,” a voice whispered. It came from everywhere and nowhere, from the obsidian sphere still pulsing on his shelf. “But a masterpiece requires a soul. Hers is the first. Yours will be the last if you do not understand.” Ten cuidado con lo que deseas

He called the town. Word spread. Art critics from the capital took the winding mountain road to Valverde. They called it “The Caged Scream.” They called it “a visceral masterpiece of existential dread.” They paid him sums he’d never dreamed of.

He carried the sphere to his studio, feeling a thrum of power up his arms. That night, half-asleep and drunk on cheap wine, he held the obsidian and whispered to the empty room: “I wish for a masterpiece. Something that will make the whole world remember my name.” Mateo would roll his eyes and return to

Mateo woke in his studio. Morning light streamed through the dusty window. The obsidian sphere was gone. So was the sculpture. His hands were clean, his chisels untouched. For a moment, he dared to hope.

He woke to the smell of wet clay and something else—sulfur, or maybe ozone. “I wish I’d never touched that thing

Be careful what you wish for.