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The Monster shuffled forward, his shackled hands reaching out. He had bargained for this. He had demanded a companion "made for me… as I am made for her." He saw the Bride not as a horror, but as a salvation. A quiet end to his eternal loneliness.

"Destroy her," he said, not to Henry, but to the silent, uncaring machine. "We belong dead." -www.scenetime.com-The.Bride.Of.Frankenstein.1935

The wind howled across the desolate moor, whipping the bare branches of the lightning-scarred oak. Inside the crumbling tower laboratory, the air smelled of ozone, hot metal, and grave dust. The "-www.scenetime.com-" log flashed on a flickering cathode tube—a ghost in the machine, a timestamp from a world that no longer existed. The Monster shuffled forward, his shackled hands reaching

"It is the spark of life," Pretorius whispered, his voice like dry leaves. "And nothing more." A quiet end to his eternal loneliness

The Jacob’s ladder crackled to life, a jagged river of pure energy leaping from the copper coils to the iron crown encircling her head. The room screamed with light. The Bride’s body arched off the table. Her bandages tightened, then loosened.

The Monster lumbered closer, his scarred face twisting into something that was almost a smile. He reached out a massive, trembling hand. "Friend," he grunted, his voice a gravelly plea. "Woman… friend."

"Go," the Bride hissed, her first and only word. "Go… away."