Embalming I

In a quiet mortuary veiled in shadow, a lone embalmer practices a craft devoted to honoring the dead. Each body is prepared with meticulous, reverent care, yet beneath this solemn routine smolders an ambition that reaches far beyond funerary ritual — the forbidden dream borrowed from the pages of Frankenstein: that death may not be final, and that the departed might be called back to life. To the embalmer, every corpse is more than a body awaiting burial; it is a vessel whose stillness refuses to be accepted as the end. Blending the artistry of mortuary work with the audacious premise of Mary Shelley's infamous creation, the story traces a solitary figure who steps past the accepted boundaries of the trade and into dangerous territory, where grief, obsession, and forbidden knowledge entwine. Yet the line between restoring life and desecrating death is perilously thin. As this daring work presses against the very limits of nature, the embalmer faces the same haunting question that tormented Victor Frankenstein before them: what truly stirs on the other side when humanity dares to conjure a soul? A dark, atmospheric one-shot about ambition, mortality, and the terrible price of defying the grave.