Shadow of Symbiosis: Embers of the Chimera

In the city of suture, Aetlis, people can be disassembled and reassembled. The stitchers in the lower city sewed animal bones into the bodies of slaves so that they could carry two hundred kilograms of ore; the "perfecters" in the upper city merged lions, eagles and dragons and suppressed the hundreds of voices in their heads by taking away the memories of the people at the bottom - they called this "consecration". Elena is the best stitcher in downtown. She has a pair of hands that never wear gloves and can feel the direction of memory fibers in other people's bodies. She has sewn two thousand one hundred and forty-three bodies and never asked why. Until that night, the cleanup team of the temple dragged in a dying body: half human, half lion, and the lower body was a mechanical snake tail that could think on its own. She just wanted to sew him back together. But in his deepest memory, he touched the Archbishop's face.