She smiled. It was a terrible, beautiful thing.
"This coffin won't hold me. It will feed me."
"You built your empire on my mother's bones," she said, her voice low but clear. "You turned her blood into coolant for your engines. Now, you fear I’ll un-weave your gears."
Koutetsu no Majo Annerose is a dark fantasy steampunk world. Magic is a chaotic, organic force (blood, bone, nature). Technology is a rigid, industrial force (steam, gears, alloys). Annerose is the bridge and the blade between them, cursed with a body that is half-shrapnel, half-spell.