The Village of Shadows Page #3

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- No, we'll get out of here.

You keep saying that.

Now shut the f*** up!

- Marion, I don't...

- Shut it!

No, Marion!

Lila?

Stop!

I don't want to play.

I don't want to play anymore!

Wait!

- I saw...

- It's here.

The Clearing of the Innocents.

This is where Lila passed out.

Except...

that wasn't there before.

Castle House.

The Disappeared of Ruiflec

August 8, 1944

Let's go, FrolichI

We have to leave this villageI

SoldiersI Forward marchI

Does anyone have a light?

I'm not going to tell you

the story of Ruiflec.

You already know it.

But I don't know if

you know my story.

That's really...

a scary story.

I was born here.

In Ruiflec.

My parents were too poor

to leave the village.

My father clung to his land.

Like a tick clings to skin.

So we stayed.

We were the only ones left.

And one day...

in 1928...

You know what happens here.

He took them all.

My father...

My brother...

My sister...

My mother.

The real question is...

why...

why did he leave me?

Why?

Because there was nobody else.

Everyone had gone!

So he chose me...

For better and for worse.

Every 8 years, 8 little mice

to feed the mean little cat.

But Lucas brought us here!

I suggested

this little country weekend...

Where are your neighbors?

Mathias!

Castle House is not

his grandparents' house...

It's my house.

He really liked you...

Too bad.

- You killed them all!

- I never killed anyone!

I never killed anyone.

He wants you to feel

the same terror he did.

When they took him from his mother,

he became cruel like his torturers.

He draws well, no?

What a waste!

He had talent.

You think you're walking

in the streets of Ruiflec,

but you're in the labyrinth

of his crazy mind.

In Ruiflec, he makes the rules.

I don't think it works, that one.

It does.

Let her go!

You're hurting me!

I'm impressed, Emma.

You've been right from the start.

We can get out of here.

- Normally, only I know.

- Tell me!

Tell me, Mathias!

Tell me!

Tell me!

Ask your sister.

You can't do it, Marion.

Immortality is not a gift!

You can't go back.

Even me, I'd often like to die.

He killed Death itself...

Those who burned him

didn't profit from that.

But I did.

And I can tell you

it's a real nightmare...

You can't get close to anyone.

You watch the people you love...

die.

And the worst...

is that you're exactly like

his victims...

Plus you feel the guilt.

You belong to him for ever.

It's your turn, now.

Welcome to his madness.

Welcome to Ruiflec...

Marion...

- What's happening?

- Don't look.

August 8, 2008

That's it?

It's over?

It's over.

Can we go now?

Don't leave me, Hugo!

I beg you!

No!

Mama...

Marion!

I'm sorry.

He has no mother.

- We need each other.

- What?

I'm his family, now.

No, Marion...

Don't leave me.

Please.

Don't leave me...

He needs 8.

I'm cold...

There's just one missing...

Are you ok?

I think there's a garage nearby.

Thank you.

Where do you come from?

From Ruiflec.

Ruiflec?

I haven't heard that name for years...

My grandma used to say,

when I was naughty,

that she would leave me in Ruiflec.

She called it

''the Village of Shadows''...

Because in Ruiflec, you never know

what's hiding in the dark.

That's just children's stories.

You must have the wrong name.

That village hasn't existed for years.

Very pretty.

Mama...

To Bibia, my mother, my inspiration...

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