The Golem Prince

Prince Sori Maret wakes in a body he built himself: crude clay, handmade, and legally treated as someone else's property. His former teacher, Master Demba Naro, is walking through the palace in Sori's stolen flesh.

Killing Demba would be simple if Sori did not want the body back.

To recover his name, inheritance, and place in the kingdom, Sori must prove something no court was designed to decide: that a person can survive a change of body without becoming a copy. The case drags him through construct workshops, rented rooms, family recognition, medical protocols, and a bureaucracy that keeps discovering new ways to recognize a prince only after asking the wrong body.

But the longer Sori lives in clay, the less simple restoration becomes. The emergency shell becomes a life. Revenge begins to resemble the logic of the man who stole from him. And even after the law recognizes Sori, the palace itself still opens for the body he no longer occupies.

The Golem Prince is a dryly funny secondary-world fantasy about identity, consent, disability, law, revenge, and what it means to own a body without turning a person into property.