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prologue
a threatening stranger
prometheus and chiron
"He sensed he'd been followed throughout the entire journey, but he hadn't wanted to turn around to check who it was. He knew that if he'd stopped, the person would have done the same and waited."
"That's odd! Who the hell lit the fireplace last night?".......
"Welcome doctor, I've been waiting for you!"
"You left, leaving me alone, but at least you shook my hand before you left.
You held it tight and I felt your warmth, which warmed my heart."
in the bath tub
an impossibile challenge
the old blind man
"The water was ready.
Left alone, Prometheus got into the bath tub....
The room was empty. Only he was there....
I shouldn't have let her see me!, he thought, reproaching himself....How could he have done that? He, such a wretched creature!"
"My God!" he muttered in awe. "I've no idea how you've survived all this time. How did you manage not to die from infection?!"
The doctor stared at him in amazement, without uttering a single word. A deep sense of discouagement overwhelmed him."
"Who goes there? Who's at the door? I'm old and blind, I can't see you. Please answer!"
The stranger at the entrance stood still and remained silent..."
in the crypt
first surgical operation
maria ruth
"Forgive me for the havoc I will soon wreak on your bodies. But now your souls have been released from the prison of your bodies. I won't have that same privilege!"
"Using Chopard's well-established method, he took a flap of skin from the patient's neck, turned it over and used it to reconstruct the lips, to which he gave thickness and shape. Subsequently, basing himself on the Italian method developed by Gustavo and Antonio Branca, he focused on reconstructing the nose."
"A woman who was no longer very young, but still very beautiful, apperead in the doorway.
She had a sweet beauty that charmed even the most distracted gaze, making it fall into the spell of her large, enchanting emerald green eyes."
first metamorphosis...
...first metemorphosis
the peak and freedom
"How long have I slept?" He tought the room seemed exceptionally bright.
"Enough so that you can finally look at yourself".
He shivered with wonder. The figure in the mirror represented perfection."
"In the instant between life and death, the eyes reveal much more than words,"
"He took her to the top of the highest peak. There, where she had wanted to go.
There, where her soul would live in the majestic beauty of the world, finally in eternal peace."
the cell
final experiment
obsession
Sleep, the only and ephemeral comfort for my pains, has not yet crossed the threshold of this desolate cell.
And these chains crush my chest, choking my breathing.
But it was Victor who forced them onto me."
"I beg you, Night, pass quickly!
"Will I die?" Prometheus asked resignedly.
"You're already dead!" he replied, bursting into a ghostly laugh, as the black silhouettes of the other jailers drew closer to the bed."
"His hands were able to nurture life even from the most barren land.
Returned from the land of the dead to make the land of the living fertile, he thought, with bitter irony.
Suddenly, the sky darkened."
second metamorphosis
the third metemorphosis
the villa
"Where is she now?”
"She’s wherever I go", he said in an ineffable tone of voice, immediately retreating into a contemplative silence.
"What do you mean?” she asked bewildered.
He didn’t answer, but began reciting verses unknown to her."
"Am I monstrously ugly once again?” he asked himself, overwhelmed by anguish.
"No. It’s not that this time", Karl reassured him.
Sitting next to him, he took a deep breath before he started to speak.
"The first day you underwent surgery, you were very weak", he began. “I realised that you were losing a lot of blood (..) Then, I wondered: which body should I give you? What was the body you wanted? You had never told me."
"Arriving near the main entrance, he stopped the vehicle.
They got out of the carriage and, with the help of their lanterns, walked side by side until they reached the entrance to the villa.
Karl knocked on the door. After several attempts, no noise from inside suggested that anyone was going to open the door.
“I'm afraid we’ve arrived too late."
the garden of souls
the birth
the final clash
"Unlike the rest of the vegetation that surrounded the villa, that plot of land was well-kept. He noticed that there was a variety of different types of flowers inside, which were arranged to form a series of flower beds, each separated by bushes of grass. Each framed perimeter contained bare earth.
Odd, he thought."
"You were inside me! You were inside me, you know? You’re so beautiful, love of my life!
You’re so beautiful, Maria Ruth!".
"You will not have peace, Prometheus. He’s not dead yet. He wants you. He knows your secret", hissed a voice in the deadly silence of that deathly place."
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