Chapter 4, The Genaros Summary

In the morning Carlos learns that Soledad is leaving and the girls are avoiding a Genaros' visit. When Don Juan puts Pablito in charge he turns insufferable. La Gorda wants to help but knows that he is too childish to be the Nagual. As soon as the Nagual leaves, Pablito decides that he is strong enough to take all three sisters as wives, but when Benigno and Nestor pin Lidia for Pablito to mount her, she head-butts and nearly kills him. Because the six cannot work together, they cannot shake off human form. Pablito arrives, panting, pale, and weary, calling Carlos "Maestro" (Teacher). Carlos wants know whether they jump bodily into the abyss. Pablito recalls Don Juan and Don Genaro saying goodbye and disappearing, his own courage failing, and Carlos carrying him to the edge, but there he blacks...