Right it’s a reanimated corpse. It is fueled by a hunger for human flesh. And I was bitten by one, so in order to keep everyone around me safe, to keep myself from turning into a zombie… I set myself on fire from the inside out.

[He tries to make it sound as simple as possible without mentioning any pain.]

After about a month I came back to that world as if I had never left. The people I left behind knew, obviously...