Oh it does, but it's not exactly common enough that there's a public panic about it. There are some creatures from my world that dissolve upon death, so I didn't think it was that odd except that it wasn't just monsters who were doing it. The non-pendant wearers don't dissolve, only people who wear the pendants. It isn't as though we had any way to really figure out what was going on with that though. It isn't any weirder than the fact that blood tests indicate we're apparently all under 10 years old or that the Bay water has living people particles in it.

[ Weiss's summaries of the research are slightly skewed. She doesn't quite understand the science, getting summaries of it resulted in her own interpretations. ]

I'm slightly alarmed out.