Before the fight even started, they looked on the verge of splitting up over the boyfriend's insistence they would spend a light, fun
afternoon watching six bulls endure the three acts of the corrida, being stabbed by men riding on blindfolded horses, followed by having hooked spears inserted and snagged in the their shoulders, and, finally, ritually slaughtered with a bent sword before being hitched to a cart and dragged off by mules, leaving a bloody smearing in the earth, ready
for a butcher to
prepare tomorrow's meat.