The Shine

Corazon Eterno

Googling hasn't told me much more about the diner or Raymond Pine. If anyone knows a better way to find information let me know. I'd like to go back there and snoop around but I have to keep on the move. Investigating maybe magic diners doesn't pay the freight.

You're always moving on to the next show. Even if you could afford to stop for a while, which I can't, it's not a good idea. It's risky to take time off because once your name isn't out there anymore people forget about you. It's easy to fade away. It can happen real fast.

I worked a woman called Estrella del Cuadrilátero in Hopkinsville last night. She didn't speak much English and I don't speak any Spanish. I know that guys go to Japan or Mexico and work matches with people they don't share a common language with. I have no idea how they do it.

Do they just feel their way through it without talking or is there a universal language of wrestling that I don't know? Wrestling Esperanto? However they do it, I don't know it and neither did Estrella. It was the worst match I've ever had. Even worse than my first match which was an overflowing flaming bag of donkey shit.

The match was so bad that I went to apologize to the booker. He mumbled something about language barriers and went back to watching barely legal porn on his laptop. A nearby asshole said that if I felt so bad about my performance should give back the money I got paid. Why did he feel the need to chime in?

No fucking way that was going to happen.

I heard that Estrella was talking shit and blaming me for the match sucking a dick. There's a loose brotherhood amongst dudes in the biz. Don't get me wrong, they screw each other over all the time, but there's also an us against the world mentality. They're all "boys". There's nothing like that that I've seen for the women. Somehow the stakes being lower makes everyone more awful, not less.

None of that is very important though. What's important is that I also learned at the show that Eterno Corazon Inmortal is going to be working a show in Silver City in a couple weeks. I confirmed online, he's scheduled to be there. When I first met Obaluaiye he was casting a protection spell because of what Eterno was trying to do to him.

Here's the crazy thing, Eterno was trying to kill Obaluaiye in the real world with magic, but they worked in the ring as wrestlers together frequently. It's a code of honor they have down south where wrestling is "off limits". Like in Left for Dead, the church is the only place Mobius Lockhart can't go. I don't know if it's a luchador thing or a magic thing or a Mexican thing. Eterno and Obaluaiye would have a match, hang out backstage drinking beer, and then later that same night Eterno would try to put a curse on Obaluaiye.

I need to go to that show and ask him about Obaluaiye. I realize that could be pointless at best and dangerous at worst. What would I do? Walk up to him at the show and ask him if he killed Obaluaiye? That's not a great way to approach a normal murderer, to say nothing of a murderous practitioner of black magic. Just like with the diner though, I feel like I have to do something. I just don't know what. 

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