Successive stages of wet sanding remove scratches and prepare the surface for a mirror finish.
Valentina Cruz was the last buscona —a seeker—who still ventured into the abandoned galleries. Her grandfather had died in a collapse there in ‘52, his body never recovered, but his pickaxe had been found embedded in a vein of the stone. The stone had grown around the iron, swallowing it like a secret. ambar lapidera