"It’s not the sort of thing you advertise. People can be so squeamish about making a living from death. That comes from cowardice and ignorance, the herd unwilling to accept that bad things happen. Well they do, everywhere, all the time. The military have their own doctors, of course, all highly skilled, but trained for triage over renewal, the quick cut-and-glue. The Pentagon wanted to train its mechanical systems in the art of restoration, how to rebuild damaged flesh. In that business I was the best."