Although Fede wore a breather, I could see why he’d gotten his nickname. His face was indeed ugly—a puckered mass of pink and white scar tissue that looked like the result of a severe burn. His hair grew in wispy patches on his head and his eyebrows were missing. His ears were twisted ruins, and I didn’t want to imagine what his nose and lips looked like. The breather that hid them was as plain as our own—a basic Fellini-Med model, decorated with an overlapping collection of frayed sports team logo stickers.