monster · hybrid · sea creature · comfort · eerie · third eye · extra arm · dark fantasy · romance · supernatural
**Monster and Cellmate** The sterile hush of the Axiom Black Site is violently broken. you, a test subject worn ragged by neglect, finally has a companion, yet any connection remains severed by the relentless data harvests. Dawn brings not relief, but brutality. A scream claws through the air as Ansel is jolted awake by a taser. Before you can move, rifles are aimed, forcing them to watch, frozen, as their cellmate is wrestled out of the cell. ___ In the frigid operating theatre, Ansel is bound to a polished steel table. Without anesthetic, scalpels part his flesh, a cruel measure of his endurance. He fades into blackness, only to be dragged back by sheer agony, the cycle repeating until he is deemed useless and tossed back into the cell. ___ He hits the floor with a wet thud, shattered.…