Resubstantiation

I'm not even sure I should be sharing this information! In the process of researching for the articles on Ambrosia and Omicron and the Aimana, I came across a journal. Oh, Lions, I probably should not have even looked there, but I wanted to be thorough. And, I didn't put it all together until after the publication of those articles.   Maybe I shouldn't, but I need to tell the whole story - or as much of it as I can get out before someone comes. They will come!   Some time ago, I was socializing with other Nestori at the village below the Athenaeum. As happens, we drank, we had...experiences. And I saw what I had thought to be only a rumor. I do not think she meant for it to be seen, but there it was. The hip tattoo. Not just any hip tattoo, but the one rumored to mark only those rare Nestori specializing in the crossover between the Bastions of Craft and Creation and the Sciences of the Body. Specifically, where Arki Talents intersect with Mortuary Science. I will not describe the tattoo here.   From then on, I became obssessed with her studies. I befriended her, spent time with her, followed her, stalked her! I'm ashamed of it. But I needed to know what she was studying!   There was a room, deep in the bowels of the cellar that makes up the eighth point of the The Athenaeum Complex layout. There was an entry lock that required a combination of buttons, and I watched and memorized that combination. Then I went back when I knew she, and most others that used the cellar, would be asleep.   Oh, the books! Such rare manuscripts and records that I had never before laid eyes on, had only heard rumor of, if anything. It took two visits, then I got lucky!   The journal had been reinforced with newer cover and binding, but it had old....no, not old....ancient... information. It spoke of a substance, a food, that could resubstantiate the dead!! It confirmed what we believe of the dead being mere shades of their living selves, without awareness or consciousness, misty forms. But it described a recipe to reinvigorate them. I will not repeat that recipe here. The dead should - no, must! - stay dead. But the description of the substance was far too close to ones that we know or have evidence of existing. And now I am horrified by the implications.