Debbie

Synopsis

"I love you more than my own skin " - Frida Kahlo

Prologue

"In an ever-changing technological world, where science fiction like medical trial-runs promise to guarantee that we once again can see ourselves, our loved ones, and others we sincerely care for — as before — greed and bureaucracy can warp and stretch ethics and hope into a twisted reality from where there is no escape." He told them exactly as he saw the world. He thought that maybe science was after all destined for people who'd dare to tread where he'd been and that the one or two who'd join his team — too would consider themselves, angels. "But for that, they'd need to have the stomach for it." He decided to skip this part of the speech that he had memorised; deciding that they'd find out for themselves, and continued as the thought of Debbie was again starting to distract him.
The abhorrence floating in the auditorium soon enough increased exponentially. Clearly, from the expresessions on their now much paler faces - as far as the wide-eyed audience was concerned, the feeling was here to stay.
"Subservient muteness." He told himself as he let his old eyes climb to the far back of the expansive room that he had booked. "It's to be expected." He mused under his breath and spied over to his nodding colleague near him on stage and eyed them again. He watched as his audience turned mute and having briefly paused mid-sentence to gauge their responses, he continued again. It was a colourful mix of young medical students, pharmaceutical representatives, and a handful of up-and-coming surgeons — who were confident that they'd seen it all. "Evidently, they had not..." He thought. With both the earlier lively chatter and the intermittent jotting down notes unceremoniously been brought to a halt, most apparently chose the view of the gigantic grey speakers, away from the unsettling slide-show that had been staring at them from the stage. As he continued surveying the curious spectators, the chilling video that had just clicked into motion and succeeded the slide-show moments prior, woke up the stark reality that there had been no perfectly graceful way to explain the future of something that the wide-eyed audience had always taken for granted. 
"So, what do we know about the human skin?"