An invented miracle transfers its price to a living relative who never consented.
In this original setting, a caster can return one newly dead person to life. Each use instead kills one of the caster’s living blood relatives, selected by a publicly known order of kinship.
The spell fails when no eligible relative remains. It cannot target someone who died through the same exchange, and the caster cannot choose who pays.
In this original setting, the service can dismiss and imprison a registered caster for refusing an emergency order, but casting still requires the caster's deliberate act. Ordered to revive a head of state, a rescue worker learns that the next relative in the known order is a child whose guardian refuses consent.
Refusal is possible and costly; it does not secretly trigger the death anyway. Establish how kinship order is verified and who can challenge the order to cast. The worker can seek a stay or accept punishment, but cannot pass the price to a convenient new relative.
A rescue worker can revive a newly dead person only by killing the next eligible blood relative in a fixed, published order. Reviving the head of state would kill a child whose guardian refuses consent. The law threatens the worker with dismissal and prison for refusing, but officials cannot activate the spell themselves. The worker can obey, refuse, or seek an emergency stay while the revival window closes.
Write the worker's answer to the order, then the first action that makes that answer real. Who helps or opposes them?
A new premise by CueShelf. This is not a scene from the source work.
CueShelf original · CueShelf
An original writing exercise, not a claim about a published novel.
CueShelf original exercise, developed from a proposed third-party-cost premise. Not attributed to Dao of the Bizarre Immortal.
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