"A growling sound, and then it happened. The creature took a white metal ring from a waist loop, tossed it over Peake's neck almost contemptuously Horis thought, and disappeared. A split second later, Peake turned into a perfect white skeleton. One moment, he was there, pissing his pants and struggling with the collar, and the next he was just an upright skeleton, bones fused together, all of his flesh and blood just sloshing into the grass, foaming over the dirt." pg 82 Chapter 15