The forces of slaughter have rearranged parts of the body. You ponder how rearrangement means something different in each of its contexts: pieces on a game board, favored courtiers in a king's hall, and parts on a body.
caves of qud, human corpse description
The city springs itself naturally into reconfiguration, into a protocol that happens once he’s been killed. And because of that, all of the pala-din have been moved to the tomb, into this tower, this mausoleum that is now at the center of the Chrysanthemum Parish. And they stand in rank, in salute, as their god dies.
friends at the table, marielda 14: the killing of the king-god samothes by the traitor prince maelgwyn pt. 4
Reconfigured Physiology: Your organs and bones don’t make sense any more. [...] This shows itself in some outward fashion – unusual growths bulging under your skin, words appearing as bruises, black blood and so on.
heart: the city beneath, major fallouts
We’re fleshy bags of blood and firing neurons. It does not take a lot of rearranging in order for the bag to burst open or the machine inside to cease operations.
woe.begone episode 30: punished