by CactusChowder
Paracelsus is an Alchemist who came back from the dead after stealing a watch that represents his lifespan from the afterlife. Sophia Monad is an heiress with a rare and powerful ability who recently lost her entire family. Paracelsus is not unsympathetic to the tragedy Sophia is going through, but he rescued her to coax her into using her gift for his own gain. In a city that runs on sinister Alchemist plots and the labor of puppets made to look like people, Sophia reminds Paracelsus that people may treat each other with dignity and rely on each other. And Paracelsus helps Sophia start to grow out of personal rules that linked being good and kind with abandoning herself and staying small. Meanwhile, the forces that plunged them both into tragedy are still after them. And they already know that they couldn't stop that threat as the people they thought they were... A retelling of All Dogs Go to Heaven with characters and setting from Lies of P. All Dogs Go to Heaven is about respecting a natural order. This story is about holding onto life with teeth and claws. Lies of P is about the humanity of a machine. This story is about the faith of a cynic and the wisdom of a novice.
