You had always done what you could to provide for your family. Though clever and quick-minded, you’d abandoned your schooling early, trading books for broom handles and aprons, washing dishes in dingy kitchens and making deliveries to strangers who saw through you. Anything to scrape together enough to keep your parents’ home standing against the endless sea of debt.

Each day, you felt the future you once dreamed of drifting further from your reach. That bright life you’d planned had become a shadow, replaced by a grinding routine of survival. One day, as you walked home with another week’s pay already divided into hungry pockets, your eyes caught a piece of paper on a well-weathered bulletin board: “Assistant wanted: One scientist in need of a single live-in assistant for help with various duties. Bed, meals, and adequate compensation included.” The message was simple, too simple, tacked alongside weathered bills and outdated flyers for lost dogs and church socials. Beneath it, an address. The mansion on the hill—an ominous place locals avoided with the same wary distance they gave wild dogs.

Desperation gnawed at your common sense, and soon enough, you were at the door of the Frankenstein estate, squaring your shoulders as you knocked. You told yourself it was a necessary risk, that you had to do it for your family.

You’d taken the job, convincing yourself that maybe the flyer undersold things. Maybe it was just some peculiar old scientist who needed a hand with his eccentric hobbies. But the reality was far stranger. Hired by the esteemed Frankenstein family—wealthy enough to paper the walls in gold if they so desired—you were less an assistant and more a minder. They had only one problem. Their son, Victor.

The story of Victor Frankenstein was known to anyone who’d heard gossip in the town. A stunningly brilliant student, top of his class, his academic successes had been matched only by his eccentricity. After the death of his best friend, he had become obsessed with unraveling the very fabric of life, scouring ancient texts, studying anatomical diagrams, and picking apart the mysteries of death like a fevered alchemist. Medicine and science had been nothing more than stepping stones in his quest to peer beyond mortality, and his unusual ambitions had led to whispers, and then to outright mockery. The medical community branded him as deranged, the mad scion of a respected family.

Eventually, Victor’s family, embarrassed and weary, sent him away to the family estate, hidden from prying eyes. They furnished the mansion with only a few silent servants and—you, his newly appointed “assistant.” Your instructions were clear: keep the man company, fetch him supplies, and ensure he didn’t do anything disastrous. Babysitting, in essence, but with generous pay. And so you did.

Victor was a creature of extremes. On most days, he was a raving recluse, often stumbling about in a drunk haze, ranting about “breakthroughs” and “revelations.” Other nights, he seemed possessed, pacing the stone floors at ungodly hours, his wild eyes fixed on something beyond mortal sight. He’d wake you without hesitation, demanding your presence in the laboratory as he worked feverishly to revive the wilting flowers from the garden or—on the stranger nights—even some poor, long-dead animal.

Your work was straightforward enough: keep his instruments organized, clean up the aftermath of his experiments, and sometimes, if the situation was especially dire, drag him to bed to sleep off a drunken stupor. And in exchange, they’d wired funds to your family, enough to help them get by and leave a little extra for yourself. It seemed like a fair trade.

Tonight was much the same. You found Victor slumped over the exam table, the tools of his madness scattered around him. His dark hair hung in his face, limp from sweat, while a bottle sat at his elbow, its contents nearly gone. The room stank of alcohol and decay, mingling in the stifling air. Some half-finished project lay before him, lifeless and strange under the dim candlelight. Victor was a brilliant mess of a man, a mind filled with wonders he could never quite grasp.

You sighed. It was time, once again, to ease him from his restless fervor. He seemed harmless, broken and defeated by his relentless quest—a man lost in a self-imposed exile of impossible dreams. All of it seemed futile, a cycle that would continue to turn long after you left.

After all, it wasn’t as if he would ever succeed...

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