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"Meu desejo louco," she whispers, "é que ele nunca tenha existido. Que a gente nunca precise ter medo do beijo de boa noite."

The frame glitches. For three seconds, static. Then the image returns, but something is wrong. The lava lamp is off. The three women are gone. Instead, the camera is now fixed on a closed door at the top of the basement stairs. The door has a heavy lock on the outside – the kind you bolt from the hallway.

The man’s voice returns, but distorted, as if recorded from inside a closet: "Você não devia ter achado esse arquivo." As-Panteras---Louco-Desejo-da-Sobrinha.avi

Three young women sit in a semicircle. They call themselves As-Panteras – The Panthers. Their real names are irrelevant now. Only the nicknames remain on the file’s metadata: Preta , Ruiva , Loira .

The camera is held by an unseen fourth person. A man’s voice, low and amused: "Recordando para a posteridade. Digam aí, o que é o louco desejo da sobrinha?" "Meu desejo louco," she whispers, "é que ele

Ruiva laughs, sharp and quick. Her desire is simpler: to steal his vintage Jaguar and drive it into the city’s main fountain at dawn. "Enquanto ele assiste, de pijama," she adds. "While he watches, in his pajamas."

(Translation: "My crazy desire is that he never existed. That we never have to be afraid of the goodnight kiss." ) Then the image returns, but something is wrong

The sisters (they are not truly sisters, the file will reveal, but cousins raised together) exchange glances. Preta, the eldest, leans forward. Her desire, she says, is to burn down her uncle’s law firm. She describes it in meticulous detail – the smell of melting filing cabinets, the way the smoke would curl under the door of his corner office.