One morning, Cesar Arredondo sneaks through dense rainforest, a telescope over his shoulder. He wants to show that where others saw a gloomy place, paradise lies. Leaves crunch under his boots, howler monkeys roar in the distance. Arredondo looks into the treetops and listens. He pauses. A trill. His eyes begin to glow.

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