You knew of only one mass dying-off of planets. So you said: “You tell me, Lord. You were there for the Resurrection.” “Yes,” he said. “And I saw the thalergy convert immediately. The difference between dying of illness and dying from murder. An enormous shock, the immediate expulsion of the soul. And just as when a soul is ripped untimely from a human being, when a soul is so rudely taken from a planet—”
