Nathaniel Smith, a young puppeteer from London. His puppet shows always drew large crowds, and even the British royal family praised his skill.

One night, in 1880s, he was driving home after performing at an orphanage. Suddenly, a bright light shone from ahead, blinding him.

*Crash!!*

He felt a harsh impact before losing consciousness.

...

“Finally… Back… Lily…”

A whisper reached her ears; slowly, she opened her eyes and sat up from her lying position. The first thing she saw was the body of an old man lying in a pool of blood. Startled, she immediately jumped away from the bed. Staring at the blood-soaked body, she slowly backed away, step by step, until she noticed something moving out of the corner of her eye.

A reflection in the mirror revealed a strange figure. Stepping closer to the mirror, she finally realized that the figure was herself.

“Wait, a little girl? How is that possible?”

Puzzled, she surveyed the entire room again. There wasn’t much to see—just a few glass test tubes, the blood-soaked body of an old man, a bed, and a small table with a stack of papers on it.

With curiosity outweighing her fear, she ignored the body and walked over to the stack of papers. Upon closer inspection, they turned out to be the old man’s research documents.

“Amaryllis...”

The documents contained the old man’s research on how to bring his daughter back to life by causing her spirit to inhabit the body of a doll that looked just like her.

As she was reading the documents, she suddenly heard the sound of a door being kicked open and many footsteps approaching the room. Thinking quickly, she put the documents back, then—drawing on her experience on stage—she feigned grief over the loss of her father as a group of foreign soldiers entered the room.