As soon as the monitor displays finally returned to full display the doctor couldn't help it: she laughed. Full-voiced and triumphant, she laughed, in counterpoint to the boy's scream of pain. He was, after all, not even human, so what did it matter? Her experiment had succeeded.
She reached over and flicked on the speaker again, wincing slightly as it squealed and spat static at her before settling to the soft hum of an open microphone. "Bravo, my dear boy, bravo!" she cried, the wide smile clearly audible in her voice. "I always knew you had it in you.
"And now everyone else will, too," the doctor continued, reaching over to a panel of switches and flipping several in turn. "It's a little unorthodox, sending the star out with his true face instead of a costume, but when the role calls for it... well, we needed a monster. A beast. And, after all, you fit."
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As soon as the monitor displays finally returned to full display the doctor couldn't help it: she laughed. Full-voiced and triumphant, she laughed, in counterpoint to the boy's scream of pain. He was, after all, not even human, so what did it matter? Her experiment had succeeded.
She reached over and flicked on the speaker again, wincing slightly as it squealed and spat static at her before settling to the soft hum of an open microphone. "Bravo, my dear boy, bravo!" she cried, the wide smile clearly audible in her voice. "I always knew you had it in you.
"And now everyone else will, too," the doctor continued, reaching over to a panel of switches and flipping several in turn. "It's a little unorthodox, sending the star out with his true face instead of a costume, but when the role calls for it... well, we needed a monster. A beast. And, after all, you fit."