Jon's surroundings flickered, leaving him in a different place, still holding the stone, and back in his own body with Zoe in her's. Except that since the stone couldn't bring people to life, Jon was now a zombie. He was halfway between alive and dead. Both and neither.
He sat up slowly, looking around at his surroundings and realizing that he was sitting on an autopsy table in the hospital morgue. No one had done an autopsy on his body, but they could be doing it soon.
He got up off the table and walked to a mirror. He was shocked by his appearance, which was ...