"It probably isn't, but I'm hoping that if I at least show a willingness to minimize the destruction, our overlords won't make me prove that it's impossible myself," Stacia says.

She whistles at his description of the kind of healing morphing can do. Sure, she could theoretically bounce back from actual brain death if she explored her Rage enough, but morphing sounds like more of a certainty. "Sounds like it doesn't even leave a scar."