Not a dead specimen like the one she had been dissecting back in the Court of Umbral Flames. But one with unnatural life still flowing through its veins. I wasn’t sure I even wanted to know how she had done that. How she had managed it without coming out looking like Lancelet.
Well, that would be stupid, wouldn’t it? Wouldn’t you actually WANT to know how they both managed to be alive after an encounter that would normally leave one looking like Lancelet had or worse, dead? But you should be able to assume from Rachel’s state that whatever it was cost her a lot to achieve…
