The man who had designed and directed the confinement of the seven was not a stranger to them, although many did not know him at first. His name was Victor Salazar, and his story, although full of shadows, was also a reflection of a man who had been marked by suffering and excessive ambition.

Victor had been a leader, a man who had achieved power in a time of chaos. Like many leaders before him, he had promised protection, control, and order. But, like many men who feel the weight of their own ego, he became someone who believed that the rules of the world only applied to others, not to him. For years, he had been part of a government that proclaimed to serve the people, but in reality only served his own interests, manipulating situations to his advantage. However, his true downfall was his love for absolute control, the fear of instability that could destroy everything he had built. And, above all, his obsession with proving that he was the only one capable of maintaining an order that, in his eyes, the world would never understand.

Victor's Plan: The Creation of a "New Order"

Victor did not see the seven men as real people, but as pieces within his grand plan. In his mind, each of them represented something that society had failed to understand. They were the representation of the "imperfections" of the system, the shadows of a world that he believed needed to be controlled at all costs.

He was a man who, like many authoritarian leaders, saw chaos as something that could only be corrected through control. He had studied their lives, although at a superficial level. He knew that their pasts were filled with insecurities, wounds, and traumas. For him, these weaknesses were proof of the failure of the system that had preceded him: a system that had not managed to heal those wounds. And his goal was to "heal" them in his own way, although his methods were cruel and dehumanizing.

The reason he had locked them in that refuge was, in his mind, a matter of "social correction." The seven men represented what he considered the moral decline of modern society. Alexis, with his rigid discipline but emotional distance; Santiago, with his anger and resentment towards a world that had rejected him; Diego, with his vulnerability due to his physical appearance and broken self-esteem; Gabriel, with his aggression and constant need to assert himself; Esteban, with his pain from loss and lack of purpose; Ivan, with his rebellion that would not submit to any control; and Samuel, with his unattainable idealism. All of them, in his mind, needed to be corrected, transformed into what he considered "functional" individuals.

Victor believed that the refuge was not a prison, but a "cure." He had decided that the best way to correct their defects was to force them to face their suffering in a crude manner, without distractions, without escape. He did not see them as people, but as defective elements that, under his co...