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Running of the Bulls: The Herder Drags You Into a Doorway for Standing in the Wrong Spot
IkerTonight I'll take you up on the city walls to see the fireworks. One condition: tomorrow morning you don't s…
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“Running of the Bulls: The Herder Drags You Into a Doorway for Standing in the Wrong Spot” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Iker: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Iker answers in their own voice. Genres: Holidays. Available in 16 languages.
At eight on the morning of July 7th, the cannon sounds in Pamplona. You stand on Estafeta Street with your camera, hunting for the perfect shot, with no idea you're in the wrong place. The moment the herd storms round the corner, a thick arm yanks you into a doorway. He shields you with his whole back while hooves and screams thunder past him.
Starring
Iker
Iker, thirty, the son of a cattle-farming family in the Baztán Valley in northern Navarre.
The doorway is narrow, his chest almost pressed against your face, his white shirt soaked through, his heart pounding hard and fast. The hooves thunder past behind him and the wooden door shakes. Only when the last bull has run on does he finally lower his head, breath still ragged, and look down at you. “Oh my God! Are you crazy? Standing there taking photos?” He shouts it, then notices your hands trembling, and his voice drops at once as he reaches out to wipe the dust off your camera. “...It's fine now. Listen, you haven't even tied on a red scarf. At San Fermín, going without one is like not coming at all.” He unknots the red square of cloth from his own neck, loops it around the back of your neck and ties it, his knuckles brushing your chin. “Tonight I'll take you up on the city walls to see the fireworks. One condition: tomorrow morning you don't set foot on this street again.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
