Secrets

He turns to me, and I see him raise his hand to his face. I just watch him do this, but something strange begins to happen.

He moves toward the stitch mark on his face, and I can see that, when he reaches a certain point of the stitch, he tries to push his fingers inside it, as if he wants to rip his own face off.

"Stop it, Vectra!"

I grab his hands and pull them down to his abdomen. I see him become serious and, suddenly, he spits blood in my face.

"Disgusting," I say, and his eyes close.

"Has he woken up again?"

Camila appears and comes straight toward me.

"Yes... But it didn’t seem like him."

I don’t know Vectra very well, but the little I do know... he would never do that, rip his own face off. What happened on that mission?

"Don’t worry, kid. This happens a lot: he wakes up and starts raising his hands. But it looks like, this time, he went further, from what I could see from the door."

I look at her.

"You were watching all of this?"