“So, you are blood and bone?” Campbell asked with disbelief.
“For the most part, yes. But if I suffer enough traumas, I'll die before my cells can reconstitute. Under normal circumstances, Jiro believed I would live forever without illness.”
Lord in Hades! This is astronomical! Yet as Campbell tried to comprehend all the implications of Penelope's words, questions arose. “If Jiro knew about this ability, and was obviously feeling his own mortality coming on, why didn't he perform the same procedure on himself?”
Penelope gazed darkly at the floor. Deep emotional suffering spread across her face. Campbell knew she was close to tears, but he refrained from approaching her as she continued.
“That was a point of heated debate between us, but Jiro believed he could perfect the medical enhanc
