
Web serial by Headless
Something fell from the sky and crawled inside Florence Bannerman. By the time she woke up — tied up, thrown from a carriage by bandits, lying in a crater that used to be the Old King's Road — the thing had already fused to her blood and gone quiet. Now her skin turns to iron when she's scared, bullets flatten against her chest, and the government's magic detectors see nothing. Florence didn't come to Dunwick to be a weapon. She came to be a doctor. All she wants is to learn medicine, keep her head down, and not draw attention. She is failing spectacularly at that last part — especially with a runaway noble friend with pyromancy and a gambling problem, a decorated mage-hunter brother who cannot detect a secret living inside his own sister, and someone in the smoke and gaslight of the city already looking for the girl who survived the crater.