I learned also that Vargas was born and raised in Xpujil—a tiny village in the Yucatán that owes its existence to a nearby temple pyramid that was originally a tourist destination but whose ancient teocalli now was an important center of worship. Hermetic mage—he’d received his training at the Ciudad Universitaria in Tenochtitlán. His current address was inside one of the Aztechnology arcologies the Aztlaners jokingly call castillos . And "castle" is an appropriate name. Nobody but Tenochtitlán’s elite gets inside one of these sprawling complexes, and the security that seals them off from the world at large is said to be more effective than a moat filled with torpedo sharks. If Rafael and I tried going in after Vargas, we’d be eaten alive before we even got a glimpse of the inside of the castillo . No, if we were going to confront Vargas, it had to be somewhere outside the arcology.