A scalpel's kiss is sweeter than you think

Thankfully Isla was engrossed in what she was doing, so she didn't have a chance to glance at the muzzle that suddenly appeared on Remi's face (else this very serious situation might erupt into a series of giggles at any moment). Even with the sense of something terribly awry, she didn't stop in her examination, parting the skin from the ribs on both sides and peeling it right back to reveal ribcase and breastbone. The stench hit her then too, even through the cloth, and she recoiled. The whole body was black inside. Only the stark white of the skeleton showed Isla where things ought to be, but even without removing the sternum she could see that the girl's organs were all but mulch within. Blackened, stinking and rotten but not quite, the healer stepped back from the body and shook her head. "It's as though the barrier rotted her from within," she mumbled. "I... how...?" Isla the flesh is weak