Just below his double chin and above the gold pectoral that hung down his chest, I noticed a bulge. Stepping up the power of the binoculars, I zoomed in for a closer look. There, over his jugular—an intravenous catheter similar to the one I’d seen on the chest of the priest who had tried to sacrifice Teresa, out in the ruins. What had the blood spirit told him? To ask his "blood brother" for the location of the itzompan . Had the two priests each undergone some sort of blood transfusion as part of a past ritual or medical procedure?