Manny at Rubacava
As we already know, Manny and Glottis are successful businessmen, taking over the Automat seemed to be a great asset to their wealth. It has been a year since Manny last saw Mercedes Colomar and he was starting to forget about her.
“Manny, there is a customer here that says she needs to see you.” Says Lola as she poked her head in the doorway of Manny’s sky tower.
“You know I don’t like to mingle with the customers.” Replied Manny and he went back to smoking his cigarettes.
“I’m sure you’ll like this one, she seems like your type!” Lola slammed the door and went back to organize the coats.
“Looks like a quiet night in ol’, Rubacava.” Said Manny to himself and he put out his but on the tower railing.
Manny opened to door and now entered his nice clean office. His auto-gambling machine was hidden under his desk calendar so no one would ever suspect it. He marched down the stairs to the lobby were he saw Lola organizing the coats, still, and he heard the soothing sounds of another great song played by Glottis.
The sky was dark, stars filled the air, ‘twas quiet today on the Day of the Dead. He saw his customer waiting for him on the ledge that he fell off, luckily for other people he put a fence up! Manny looked toward the figure in the night, could it be? Could it really be Mercedes Colomar?
“Meche? Is that you?” Asked Manny, looking puzzled and anxious. The figure spoke, and it had the voice of Mrs. Colomar!
“Manny, why didn’t you look for me? I was all alone. Look what happened to me… And it was all because of you!” Just then the figured in the night revealed its face, showing a gruesome fixture of the messenger bird of Hector Limons. Manny quickly inserted a quarter to activate the binocular system the raven was sitting on and followed its path, knowing that it would lead him to either Don Copal or Domino Hurley.
Finally after searching hard, his sight landed on Domino, and he was grabbing Meche! He quickly ran down as fast as he could, the boat was taking off! His last attempt to get access on the boat was a success, but alas he could not pull himself up. Then as if an angel appeared, Meche came down to save Manny, or so he thought. Mercedes quickly threw an empty beer bottle at Manny’s head hitting him directly between the eyes and knocking him into the drink.
10 Days later Manny was over his nasty cold and still thinking about his encounter with Meche. He had decided not to go because he knew Domino was up to something but he wanted more proof, after all it would be impossible to chase him without the proper transportation. Just then something made a sound to the right of him. He wasn’t expecting it since he was in his tower and the Café was closed.
“Hola Manuel, said a pigeon in the voice on Salvador Limones, I have heard you did not go looking for Meche, ‘twas a shame, because of you Mercedes Colomar is now dead. Since you did not accept the ‘bait’” Manny stared at the pigeon and it flew away. He could not believe what he had just done. Because of him his ticket out of the Eight Underworld was now gone.