"You may have all of my memories to the point where you can fabricate nightmares of such a degree... but you clearly lack a brain,"
Annan leaned on the wall behind him and spoke slowly, "If you had the same wisdom as me, you wouldn't have left so many holes."
Of course, there was no response to Annan's words.
But that didn't matter.
After coming out of this nightmare, he had completely understood Denton's logic.
The reason Denton could survive in his own nightmares... was probably that Salvatore underestimated the power of a Gold-rank Transcendent and used Denton's brain as curse-material, incorporating it into the pills.
After being stained, the soul had essentially transcended the limits of "humanity."
That was a bona fide non-human.
After all, it was only Denton's spine and soul that were taken—although his soul was also captured, his brain remained intact.