- Mrs. Adelina, they are reporting the disappearance of some boys on television! –Said one of the maids. - It was in Coatzacoalcos.
- The blacklist is now very large!
Soledad says, in that Romaia and Érika entered the room, to communicate the news of the disappearance of the boy from her school, but they kept silent when they saw and recognized the librarian, greeting her politely, they said goodbye and no longer gave her the news.
- Good girls! Taking advantage of the fact that we are all gathered, it is time for you to know the situation, I want everyone to copy the list of the guests and attach as many as possible, to remember that they have attended the party on Saturday. –Adelina says. -The lady present here is Dr. María de la Soledad García Arenas, she has been in charge of the city library for some years and is here to help us, what we did on Saturday was very serious, and inadvertently we invoked a very powerful diabolical entity that has already begun to collect its tribute, because Iván Padierna, the one they are reporting as missing, is probably their first victim.
- I'm going to talk to my parents so they can come and get me!
Says Belinda Castillo, another of the boarding schools, barely 17 years old, very pretty, with long blonde hair, straight and green eyes, whose thick complexion made her look chubby and funny for women, but sensual and attractive for men.
- It will be useless, girl! - Soledad tells her. -She will find you wherever you go, you will also put your family at risk, because the crocodiles will not only devour you, but also them.
- But there must be some way to stop her! –says Romaia. -No way that she's invincible.
- There is and it isn't! As you know, I am the librarian and I have been in that job for more than 20 years, so I can assure you that the times she has been invoked, no one has known how to stop her and everything is over, until she takes everyone on her list, or until the Count reaches her and assassinates her again.
-And this time the list is very long, so much that it may take years to complete it, today it was young Ivan, tomorrow who knows, because it is likely that each and every one of those who sang and danced that night are on your list, and not just those who were inside the mansion.
Soledad says, leaving them in silent expectation, which made them keep a few minutes of silence, until Érika Cienfuegos said:
-If the problem is the Countess, the solution is the Count, she fears him and that is why she runs away in terror when she hears him arrive, if there is any way to stop her, it is by controlling the Count.
-You may be right, but the problem is that she does her thing when he's not around, and just like when they were alive, the Count is absent and nobody knows when he will arrive. –Adelina says.
- So we just have to sit and wait for the crocodiles to eat us? –asks Pamela, who had also been called.
-That's what I'm here for, as some of you know, I'm the librarian. –said the mulatto looking at Romaia; Pamela and Érika. –And in one of the books that I have read, there is a ritual to protect them that we will elaborate this night, that is why it is necessary that none of you go out, because at any moment it can come for you, Mrs. Adelina and I will go out for a while to get what is necessary to protect them, and the more guys who were present can warn them to come, the better.
- I'm not staying here! –says one of the girls.
-Wherever you go, please take me.
- And me, and me!
The requests and protests of the other inmates, began who did not agree to be left alone, agreeing that Adelina would stay with them and Romaia; Érika and Pamela would take her to the Caribe to get the necessary ingredients.
-To the library, girls, I need to make a call and I have the number written down in the library notebook. - Soledad says.
From there they went to the market to buy some herbs, candles and other substances that he collated in a handwritten list, the girls pretended not to talk much to him, nervous because they did not know if the mulatto related them to the theft that the and the Snail, the night they were hired to steal their supposed book of potions, but no, the mulatto was very nice and in a short time she gained their trust and they talked like great friends.
-There it go, ladies, straight to the Román mansion!