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.
Be careful what you wish for.
He froze.
In the center of his studio stood a sculpture he had never made. It was a woman, life-sized, carved from a single piece of jet-black stone that hadn’t been there before. Her face was beautiful beyond reason, but her expression… her expression was wrong. Her lips were parted in a silent scream, and her hands were raised as if pushing against an invisible wall. Ten cuidado con lo que deseas
That night, Mateo stood before the living statue. Her stone fingers had almost reached his throat now. The obsidian sphere pulsed like a black heart. That ancient warning has echoed through folktales and