[ She once killed an entire city of people and made the whole thing float. Intensity is the least of one's worries. ]

That sounds...very similar? To what happened to us. When the awoke, did they have new bodies? Or were they given something else? The theory of putting a soul into another body is not unknown to me, so if your world is even remotely similar to mine, I can see it being done.

[ Her lips quirked, and she gestured with a hand that looked withered, and dead. ]

In fact -- this is my second body? Maybe my third, if we received new ones upon waking. At this point, I may be an old hand at it.