Years later, Robert kidnapped Vicente. He told no one. He didn’t kill the boy. Instead, he drugged him and took him to the mansion. There, under anesthesia, Robert performed the first of many surgeries. He reshaped Vicente’s face, his body, his sex. He gave him female anatomy, a vulva, breasts—and finally, he covered him with the indestructible Gal skin.
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Robert is developing a revolutionary synthetic skin—transparent, unbreakable, and immune to burns or infection. He calls it "Gal." Vera is his living, breathing prototype. He has surgically covered her entire body with this new skin. To him, she is a masterpiece. To her, he is a monster. Six years earlier, Robert was a respected surgeon with a beautiful wife, Gal, and a young daughter, Norma. At a wedding, Gal was horribly burned in a car accident. Robert saved her life but could not restore her face. When Gal saw her disfigured reflection, she threw herself out a window. Years later, Robert kidnapped Vicente
When Robert returns, he finds Vera waiting in his bedroom, dressed in one of his dead wife’s gowns. She is calm. She asks him, “Do you love me?” He says yes. Then she shoots him in the chest. Instead, he drugged him and took him to the mansion
As Robert bleeds on the floor, Vera whispers: “My name is Vicente. I was a waiter in a restaurant. My mother is waiting for me.”
Vicente woke up as Vera. At first, Vicente/Vera fought, screamed, tried to tear off the skin. But the skin was part of him now—nerves bonded to synthetic tissue. Any attempt to remove it caused agony. Over years, the hormones, the isolation, and Robert’s psychological manipulation began to blur Vicente’s identity. He/she started to move like a woman, think like a woman. But deep inside, the memory of being Vicente—of a mother who loved him, of a life before—remained alive, buried under layers of artificial flesh.