//Sa tahimik ng gabi, kinukwento ni mama ang (link-reveal: "mito")[(show: ?1)] ni Pedro Calungsod.// |1)[All he did was carry this heap of riverwater the men of Ginatilan had (link-reveal:"bathed")[(show: ?2)] in. |2)[//Binuhos sila mula sa isang sagradong bahagya, (link-reveal:"ginhawa")[(show: ?3)] na ipinagbawal sa panahon ng suklam.// |3)[Pedro took Jesus' face each evening: his hands tacked with rice, grime, and dirt. Each hour could be the last. At three, the process of (link-reveal:"deification")[(show: ?4)] then came known to me. |4)[//Tapos ng takipsilim sa San Vitores, umiyak ang tinalikdang asawa at binigyan niya kay Pedro ang nalalantang kamay ng kaniyang panganay. Lahat ng bagay sa mundo na dalisay at hinding tinatablan sa kanyang paningin: birhen (link-reveal:"pero")[(show: ?5)] isinilang din sa kasalanan ng sangkatauhan na nauna sa kanya.// |5)[Pedro, like the other missionaries, tested several faiths. They asked him what rights he held to baptize all that was new in something that would believe they were tainted in the first place——as he had only (link-reveal:"absolved")[(show: ?6)] them once more.|6)[// Mama, ano bang nagawa ko upang marapat ang (link-reveal:"paglulunod")[(show: ?7)] bago ako natutong paanong magsalita?// |7)[This must have been a way of convincing this dying country that there was still a way we could be saved. Pedro approximated the daylight and tended the (link-reveal:"purulence")[(show: ?8)] with floods. |8)[//Alam niya, kasabay ng labis na katiyakan, na bahagi ng Kaniyang (link-reveal:"plano")[(show: ?9)] ang dusa.// |9)[Kaya hinalikan niya ang anak na babae na hindi niya kayang hubad; kaya pinunasan ng antiseptiko ang aking noo pagkatapos ng (link-reveal:"paghampas")[(show: ?10)]. |10)[Lagi tayong nagdarasal bago natin (link-reveal:"nilunok")[(show: ?11)] ang ating dila. |11)[Sabi ni mama na tinali nila ang malalaking bato sa buol ng bangkay ni Pedro bago nila siyang hinayaang maanod sa (link-reveal:"dagat")[(show: ?12)]. |12)[When we walk into the waist-high shoreline, I brace my head and feel her palms press my (link-reveal:"scalp")[(show: ?13)] as I can't keep from tasting the salt. |13)[//Sa isang mataling sulyap, natikman ko rin ang labi ng kanyang dugo.//]]]]]]]]]]]]]
↶↷Sa tahimik ng gabi, kinukwento ni mama ang mito ni Pedro Calungsod.