Then, a single severed finger dropped to the ground.
It landed on the cracked floor with a barely audible tap, rolling once before coming to rest against a piece of fallen debris. It was small, completely ordinary looking. Just a finger, nothing more.
But then it twitched.
The severed finger began growing immediately. Bone extended from the base first, forming a skeletal framework that shot outward in rapid bursts. Muscle fibers wrapped around the bone like threads being spun at incredible speed. Tendons attached. Veins formed and began pulsing with blood that materialized from nothing.
Within five seconds, a hand had formed. Within ten, an arm. Within twenty, a full torso was taking shape, vertebrae forming one by one down the spine with quiet clicking sounds.
