“It's hard to explain,” mused Chara. “My body certainly did not die. But it just as obviously could not survive inside the body of my star. To put it in simple terms, you can say that my body was transformed into star-stuff. And my soul was enlarged to encompass the whole of my new body. If I wish, I can move a portion of it to any place I please. For example,” she said with a smile in her voice, “I can transform a part of it into this pleasing form, and spend hours in pleasant bed-play with you.
“But it is not my true body. If someone were to blow it up and scatter it to atoms, my soul would be untouched and unharmed. I would find myself back in my star, it is true. But it would be the work of moments to reconstitute myself and go back to where my previous body met its unpleasant demise.
