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Two souls, scattered across four centuries by a failed experiment, are reborn in Sumeru without memory of each other. Kaveh, a brilliant architect drowning in debt, begins to remember a past life as Pantalone, the Ninth Fatui Harbinger—the man who loved Zandik, the original Dottore, and watched him die before his hollow Segments took his place. Haunted by the knowledge that his past self still walks the world, Kaveh secretly monitors Pantalone from the shadows while living with his former Akademiya rival, Alhaitham. But Alhaitham is no ordinary scribe: he is Zandik reborn, granted the childhood and support the original never had, his turquoise eyes the only physical difference from the red-eyed heretic who died four hundred years ago. As the Irminsul burns and the Dendro Archon brings divine judgment upon Il Dottore, two men bound by an ancient love must piece together who they were—and decide who they want to be.