Hurden is performing terrible experiments with patients, that always die afterwards. In the Deptonn hospital Dr. Death cannot have a heart. Death cannot feel fear. The experiments continue until one evening Hurden succeeds and the patient doesn't feel fear and pain anymore. Father Temius then performs a ritual and creates an artificial death in a physical body. The patient's chest opens up with no heart inside, only the arms of the dead ones are reaching out from its chest, trying to get out.
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