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In twenty minutes my eighteen-year-old twin sister Quetzali is going to be sacrificed to our bloodthirsty Gods that need to be pleased. Quetzali and I are Aztec slaves that were chosen by a group of brujos (male witches) from Tenochtitlan. One of the reasons why we were chosen was because we were born with green eyes and because Aztecs have dark eyes it was interpreted as a bad omen.

This story follows a young Spanish Jew, Maximo ha-Levi Constanego, in the land of Mesoamerica. He left his homeland of Spain as the Islamic caliphate gasped its last collective breath of occupation. The Reconquista, the reconquering of Spain, was well underway. Even as newfound freedom blossomed for some, it was not so for the Jews. Maximo was spirited out of the country by his anxious mother, on a ship captained by his Catholic uncle, Rodrigo Constanego.