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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

presence. “Margo… stay,” he added more softly, less a question now, more a quiet wish that she would remain just a little longer.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“Sp…len…did,” he echoed, careful, deliberate. His chest rose, and he pressed his palm there again, grounding himself the way he had begun to do. “Adam… good?” There was a kind of hope in it. After a moment, he shifted closer to her, not quite touching this time, but near enough to feel her

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

waist. At the places the tailor had touched. His fingers hovered there for a moment, uncertain. His head lifted. The tension in his brow eased. He searched her face, as if to confirm the word meant what he hoped it did. Something good. Something he had done right.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Adam did not move at first after the door shut, as though the absence of the stranger needed to be proven safe. His shoulders remained tight, breath still uneven, the memory of unfamiliar hands lingering on his skin. Then, slowly, he looked down at himself. At the blanket gathered clumsily at his

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Adam merely hissed at it. The strange machine spat fire - he didn’t wish to get any closer.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

“Lonely?” What was lonely? He supposed he could be.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Adam simply shrugged. He’d heard things about friends, and this one seemed like he was.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

“I.. It— it hissed, and.. Warm.. Like fire but not.. And.. And it spat!”

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

“I-.. It-.. It attacks.. I.. Stopped it.”

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

“Margo!” Where was Margo?! He had to save her from this… this thing!!

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Adam followed, gently setting the still smouldering remains on the table. “It hissed…”

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

“yes,” he said after a moment, though the word sounded uncertain, childlike. “But… I don’t think it likes me.”

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Adam shifted the toaster in his hands, staring at the warped metal as though it might explain itself.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

@verummonstrum.bsky.social Adam stood in the doorway, the broken toaster clutched in both hands. Its metal shell was warped, its surface still faintly warm, a thin curl of smoke rising from the slot.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Well… no. That would entirely defeat the object of the screeching.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Adam’s brow furrowed, shame darkening his face. “It frightened me,” he murmured.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Adam’s chest heaved as though he’d fought a beast and won. His eyes, wide with shock, darted from the smouldering toaster to Yeshua’s calm face. “I—I,” he stammered, voice trembling with guilt and confusion. “It leapt. It screamed.”

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Adam did not hesitate. With a startled cry, he snatched up the entire machine and hurled it across the room. It struck the wall with a metallic clang, sparks flickering like frightened fireflies before fading into silence.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Adam regarded Quasimodo for a long moment, something gentle flickering behind his grave expression. “You hear its song,” he said quietly. “I only hear the hum.”

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Adam crouched beside them, his great frame folding awkwardly to fit the narrow space. He regarded the toaster with wary fascination, the faint whir of its coils reflected in his mismatched eyes. “It is warm,” he murmured, voice rough but curious. “Like the hearth… but without fire.”

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Yet he did not move away. He looked again to her, his voice raw and halting. “Margo… stay.”

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

His jaw tightened, humiliation and fear warring with obedience. But he stood still, trembling slightly, because she had asked him to. When the tailor reached forward to measure, Adam flinched at the first touch of the cold tape, a low sound escaping him, more reflex than language.

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The Creature - “Adam” @offleshandbone.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

but only when Margo’s hand stayed upon his shoulder, grounding him. Slowly, with visible effort, he released the blanket from one side, letting it fall to his waist as requested.

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