Cuidado Con Lo Que Deseas - Ten

Elena finally looked at him. Her eyes were wet. “You cannot un-wish. You can only make a new wish. But each wish carves a little more of you away. Are you willing to lose yourself to save her?”

“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.”

Desperate, he ran to his abuela.

Be careful what you wish for.

“I wish I had never found you.”

He held the sphere and made his third wish.

The world went white.

That ancient warning has echoed through folktales and whispered warnings for centuries. But for Mateo, a young, restless sculptor in the rain-soaked mountain town of Valverde, it was just a phrase his abuela muttered when he complained about the village’s slow, quiet life.

Mateo tried to destroy the sculpture. The chisel shattered. The hammer flew from his hand and struck his own reflection in a mirror, spiderwebbing the glass. He tried to flee Valverde, but the mountain roads twisted back to his studio door. Ten cuidado con lo que deseas