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In a plague-ridden 14th-century port city, a disgraced physician salvages his reputation by discovering a method of reanimating the dead. His first corpse-laborer, stitched into waxed funeral linen, can unload grain, haul refuse, and handle infected matter without spreading ordinary sickness, and that practical miracle makes him indispensable almost overnight. What begins as emergency labor quickly becomes commerce and prestige: wealthy households begin displaying corpse-servants at table, using the dead as both status symbol and proof that they can buy protection from a world collapsing under pestilence.

The doctor is soon drawn into a bargain with a merchant consortium that offers him money, political cover, and access to bodies if he scales the practice into a true industry. Under their protection, he helps turn plague death into infrastructure: undead porters, sanitation crews, and household servants become the hidden machinery keeping trade alive while the living die around them. But to keep this arrangement intact, he has to conceal the first signs that his creations are no longer merely obedient corpses. They are remembering, noticing, and developing a shared interior life shaped by the disease that killed them.

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