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What does a man owe the thing he made and abandoned?
Averic Merrow was once the kingdom's most feared alchemist, crafting living weapons from flesh and metal. But after the war ended in horror, he vanished into exile. Years later, the Crown demands one last creation to end a new war.
Instead of a monster, Averic builds something else: Lio, a strange, self-aware homunculus who dreams, writes poetry, and refuses to kill.
Now hunted by the Crown, Averic and Lio flee across war-ravaged lands, pursued by his former apprentice, haunted by the ethics of creation, and drawn toward a lost laboratory that may hold the secret to true autonomy.
But the question remains:
If you give something life, can you choose what it becomes?
A dark, philosophical fantasy about fathers and monsters, will and obedience, and the price of creating something that thinks for itself.