(urth) Sev's Silence about Catherine

[Jeff Wilson]

b sharp wrote:
> Jeff Wilson writes: 
>> Stitching a freshly severed head back on is much less impressive than 
>> returning days-dead Zama to life, or generating an entire new body for 
>> himself on The Ship.
> 
> I'll disagree on the basis of the many micro-connections that would need to 
> be carefully mended.

A clean sword stroke limits the trauma to a relatively thin layer of 
some millions of cells and connective tissue, perhaps some fracturing 
would spread through the one or two intersected vertebra. Zama, on the 
other hand, has trillions of cells' contents turned to mush from abject 
lack of perfusion.

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