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She brought him to the world and a moment later she took him firmly in her arms, looking at what she had just created. His bright blue eyes mingled with her brown eyes. His face was soft and sweet. She found that her task was on it.
She had given a new life, her life. Relieved, she closed her eyes and said to herself that she loved him, even though it was nothing but a small pile of meat. Her heart rate decreased and she saw a white light that flickered. Like she was in a movie theater which the screen was overrunning to a superheated cable.
She heard how the nurses yelled for the doctor and she felt the small heart of her newborn baby, that was on her stomach, beating and she knew that he did not need her and that one day he would make someone as happy as he had done to her.
He had a different type of skin, that was sure. An impenetrable skin.
"Andreas." Was the last thing she whispered with the last breath she pressed out of her lungs and she let her carry away with the waves of the same white light.
YOU ARE READING
The Other Skin
Science FictionAndreas, a guy who signed up for a project is taken to a new dimension.He's part of a Winter Colony and he has to train to get on this market, where he has to change human beings into 'other skins'. The only thing he has to do is change the directio...