I think its sketchy af right now because of how very adamant the initial write-up was that KC was going to either die, or turn into a zombie, or otherwise become an impediment to village.
However, I have had very similar mod mixups happen in my PM when I asked questions to clarify game mechanics. There might be a healer/cure item that breaks from lore just for the purpose of this game. I'm not letting her off my radar, but for now willing to hold off on the conversion/turning into a third party zombie/whatever theorizing until I see KC do something wolfy.