No one understood what was happening when that young man arrived at the emergency room.
He was breathing rapidly, his face was pale,
and his hands were trembling as if he wanted to explain something…
but he couldn’t find the words.
The doctors looked at him in surprise.
They had seen many things over the years,
but that image on the X-ray
left them speechless for several seconds.
There, in the middle of his chest,
occupying a space that should never have been there,
was a long, irregular shadow…
a chain.
A whole chain.
The doctors looked at each other.
No one knew how it had gotten there,
no one knew how long it had been inside his body,
or why the young man had kept such a dangerous secret
until his body could no longer bear it.
As they prepared for the operation,
he tried to speak.
His lips moved with difficulty,
but his gaze said more than any words:
fear, confusion…
and perhaps a little regret.
