Butterflies & Ink

In a city that forgets its dead but remembers their faces, there lives a man who rebuilds the broken.
A surgeon without age. A name without record. A reputation locked behind doors and stitched lips.

He calls it healing. Others call it resurrection. But when a veiled woman walks into his life, scarred beyond recognition, yet carrying a name she should not know...
Something shifts.

What begins as another transformation becomes a slow unravelling. Of skin. Of memory. Of self.
As beauty takes shape beneath his hands, so too does something darker, something he cannot control, nor cut away.

Because the real operation was never on her body.

It was always on his soul.