[ there is a terrible familiarity to this, and law sighs. ]

As it happens, I'm working with another patient with a similar case. He was dead before arriving here, too, and it's not left him without consequences. I suspect your friend is similar. [ he draws a breath, continues, ] The body that has been brought here, unless they have somehow remade him entirely, was already deceased. The illness should have killed him instantly when he woke up here — that it hasn't is both reassuring and intriguing.