There would be no pulse at his touch, but something else instead started after he rolled her over. A very faint noise from inside, like a click followed by a gentle thrum of machinery.

Slowly her systems began to turn back on, one by one, diagnostics checking everything twice over after the damage.

She didn't move, though, and her eyelids only slightly went up, revealing blank eyes the color of bright blood beneath. A finger on her right hand twitched a little, but for the moment she was nearly as still as when she had fallen from the tomb.