Monsters!
The knee and lungs had sorted themselves out by the time I got a reply. Which isn’t as bad as it sounds: the bodies we use on Earth generally bounce back fast. You can even get pieces to reattach, although there’s always going to be a little seam afterward. Made angel-demon battles from the old days real fun to clean up afterward, let me tell you.
And it was just as well. “They report your first body was assigned to a Virtue on monster duty. Immolated during an assault on a krasue swarm.”
“Immolated? From what? Explosive fangs?”
“No,” said the Throne as she accessed the congealed thought-pearl we use to send information to Earth. “C-4. The Virtue decided the best way to reduce the nest was to run inside it with an explosive vest.”