[ a sharp, frustrated exhale at that news of the game, and she drags a hand through her hair ]

Is that really what you think is happening? [ from her tone, it's not a rhetorical question ]
In my own world, we do know what happens to the souls of the dead: When they are ready, they drink from the river of forgetting, and pass on to the next life. Losing their memories and identity is part of that. So I am being very honest when I say that I saw the greying like that, even if it is horrible to inflict on a living person.

As far as I've been concerned, the grey death really has seemed like the only real death there is, here, and in more ways than one.