Chapter 7Cuahátal
Four hours before the discovery of the second body, the man who called himself Cuahátal moved silently as he crossed the stone floor of the cellar of his house in the area of Mexico City known as Coyoacan, the blood of his latest victim dripping from his hands as he walked. The walls of the stone flagged room carried depictions, painted in various hues, of the characters and inscriptions of long ago, many of which could be found on the interior walls of the great pyramids at Teotihuacán. Cuahátal felt an intense pride at having created such an authentic recreation of the interior of the temple of the High Priest. For now, though, there remained much work to be done.
Looking down, he could see his arms were saturated in the red life-blood of the young woman who'd just be
