Two: Ripping Corpse Attack

‘Consider, for a moment . . . ‘

. . . she raised her finger for attention.

‘Consider, for a moment, the combination of morphogenetic energy with the tricarboxylic acid cycle that drives living cells. That would be dreadful adversary: a superhuman monster, driven both by soul-force and cell chemistry, seeking revenge on the living for the indignity of its own aborted death.’

She looked sombre. ‘But such a thing could happen only when soul force flows back into a body at the exact moment of organic death; and that never happens.’

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