mugged that time he came home with a swollen face and how i hadn't gotten in the fights in school it had all been kabeccion and his crew mom and dad went into overdrive calling all the family and asking if they knew anyone inside cv an uncle of ours knew a guy who was closely associated with them and together they set about looking for lucas we'd assumed they had kidnapped lucas to make drugs for them and that raising some ransom money might secure his release the reality was worse than we could have ever imagined the tuesday after lucas disappeared my uncle and his friend arrived at her house to tell my mom and dad that they'd found lucas but the way they said it the sad looks on their faces it told them all they needed to know my mom started wailing and my dad had to restrain her i didn't cry i was just numb and thinking back on it all these years later i think it was because i knew he was dead already he died the moment he told cabezione and commando vermegio no lucas had a closed cassette funeral but for years i didn't question why then a long time later years after we'd moved to sao paulo to get away from the favela me and the same uncle were still drunk after carnaval sitting on the roof of our home while the sun rose over the mountains we had something of a heart to heart and it was only then that i found out how lucas had died the final weekend he came home cabacion and his crew met lucas at the bus station when he told them they need to talk cabezune told him fine but we need to talk somewhere more private kavasoon and his crew then walked luke's up to a very high place in a favela one of their hangouts that had an amazing view over the whole favela cabezon explained to lucas that he has accepted that he would not work for cv they could find other chemists that was not the problem the problem was that if word got out that one young man had defied cv that all sorts of people would decide to be brave and also tell them no and that could not be allowed to happen so as a warning to everyone in the favela they beat lucas up tied him upright to a pole then began to stack tires around him threading him like a needle through the loops after that they poured petrol over him and set him on fire everyone in the favela who was looking out their windows that night could see my brother burning and i thank god that me and my parents either weren't awake to see it or were ignorant of it going on and i also thank god that my parents had the strength and courage to move us away from rio one of the most beautiful cities in the world but one with far too many bad memories for us to stay
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