Klutz: Phoenix Down (But Did You Die?, #1)

by Sedona Ashe

Regenerating wasn’t a walk in the park. The magic, or at least that’s what I thought of it as, didn’t just fix the fatal injury and then stuff my soul back in my body. Nope, it gave my body a complete overhaul. Every cell in my body was repaired; scars disappeared, even the slight signs of aging that occurred between my deaths, and subsequent regenerations, were corrected. Basically, my body was reset to factory settings each time I died. I looked twenty years old after each regeneration. The major downside of being able to die and come back, besides the horrific pain, is the amount of energy the magic has to use to make the repairs to my body. Whenever I regenerated in the past, I always found a safe place to curl up and sleep for several days. After the first couple of days spent asleep, I would wake up, emerging like a bear out of a hibernation, and eat everything I could find, before sleeping again. It took about a week to recover, and that was if I didn’t fight the sleep and just went straight to bed and allowed myself to rest.

Explaining her regeneration abilities/drawbacks