The Ethical Resurrection Protocols emerged from the marriage of consciousness and void like a carefully orchestrated symphony, each note precisely calculated to avoid the catastrophic harmonics that had once threatened reality itself. Reed stood at the center of the new resurrection matrix, feeling the weight of every life he was about to restore balanced against the cosmic stability they had fought so hard to achieve.
Gone were the desperate, reality-warping methods he had once employed. In their place was something far more elegant—a system that used the void's power of dissolution to carefully separate the essential pattern of a being from the corruption of death, while consciousness provided the framework for rebuilding that pattern in perfect harmony with universal law.
"The irony," Reed murmured to himself as he prepared for the first test of the new protocols, "is that we needed to understand death completely before we could master life."
