[ There's shock there but no judgement that Drake can see, so he continues, hands around his coffee cup. ]

It... can mean that. It's not like the movies, corpses rising from the grave and all. That doesn't happen. If someone's dead they're just dead, but if an infected person doesn't stay fed, they can turn into mindless brain eaters, yeah. The rotting, the shambling, all of it. I never hit that point, though it got close a couple times.

[ There's more to it, but he'll let Caleb process it one piece at a time. His smile is a little wry. ]

It sucked. Like really sucked, on a lot of levels, but there are benefits too. That's why I stayed one so long before asking the gods for a human body.