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The brothers were a curse to the Spanish town. Annoying bullies, vandals and street robbers, especially when they were together. Without a family, they lacked any moral compass. They didn't care about anything, including the new law to combat social degradation. They had been caught and escaped many times before. The judge's verdict therefore did not impress them. They laughed in his face. Tomorrow, in a week at the latest, they would set fire to his car.
They were instantly taken off to the arena as a prelude to the bullfight. The cheering crowd made all the difference. The reverberating voice of the speaker, who shouted around that they were incorrigible criminals and had to serve the community as slaves, added to the intimidation. The judge had said the same thing in the dull courtroom, but only here it sounded serious. But the real gravity of the moment only sank in when the blacksmith rolled a fire basket into the arena with two branding irons in the red glowing basket and two iron collars in his hand. From the other side, four policemen came in with tasers. "Now they will strip" the speaker announced. And the crowd broke out in cheers and howls. Only now did they fully realize that their old lives had been upended.

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The brothers were a curse to the Spanish town. Annoying bullies, vandals and street robbers, especially when they were together. Without a family, they lacked any moral compass. They didn't care about anything, including the new law to combat social degradation. They had been caught and escaped many times before. The judge's verdict therefore did not impress them. They laughed in his face. Tomorrow, in a week at the latest, they would set fire to his car.
They were instantly taken off to the arena as a prelude to the bullfight. The cheering crowd made all the difference. The reverberating voice of the speaker, who shouted around that they were incorrigible criminals and had to serve the community as slaves, added to the intimidation. The judge had said the same thing in the dull courtroom, but only here it sounded serious. But the real gravity of the moment only sank in when the blacksmith rolled a fire basket into the arena with two branding irons in the red glowing basket and two iron collars in his hand. From the other side, four policemen came in with tasers. "Now they will strip" the speaker announced. And the crowd broke out in cheers and howls. Only now did they fully realize that their old lives had been upended.