THE BLUE FEATHER
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“Or, maybe they will have him eat us alive!” wondered Togué
aloud.
“Could tomorrow be possibly worse than today?” Unnil asked
the other warriors. He reached up, and realized his medallion he
always wore around his neck was missing.
“Yes,” answered Togué, then he hung his head in shame for
being captured. He saw that several men had appeared out of a
cloud of strange mist. How could that be, it had to be magic.
Those beings dressed different, and they served the young girls
and boys food like servants. What kind of strange place was this,
the Lost City of Dómpu? He wanted to know the answers. He
knew he would never see his father, mother, or even the woman
he loved ever again. He looked up at the moon called Ero, soon it
would be full of light. Then the small warriors would take all of
them to the top of Kukulcán’s Pyramid, and cut their hearts out
of their bodies. They would hold the hearts up high, giving them
in sacrifice to the great, blue-feathered dragon, Kukulcán.