"Yeah, I'm dating a guy like that. He tends to pop around weirdly in a fight. Neat trick, but kind of unnerving. I never tried reaching for that sphere of ability, mostly for fear of smearing myself all over the landscape. "What if I screw up" is a legitimate fear when you're pushing the reality-envelope."
She nods as he theorizes about the nature of this place. "At least it isn't powered by kid-screams," she mutters, then speaks up. "Well, thing is, saying that a soul is a specific sort of energy is like saying that a person is a specific sort of meat. Energy makes up a soul, but its arrangement is uniquely complicated, person to person. Like the energy driving all living things, it is also self-propagating: a soul generates energy, radiates it, connects to others with it."
She helps him up onto the front stoop of the apartment building and stomps snow off her boots. Dog sits down next to him for a moment, panting. "You can technically trap a soul or other spirit entity in a vessel of some kind. For some of the nasty ones it's the only way to get rid of the damn things. But usually that's a horrific experience for the being involved. The only time it isn't is when they volunteer. My tradition makes different devices which are inhabited voluntarily by spirits and powered by their nature and energies. I actually have two with me."
Dog trots in through the door ahead of them. Ashe touches Walter on the back gently. "It's anything but a bad thing, Doc, think about it. If you have two Awakened people working to get you out of here, and both of us have experience in world-crossing...." she lets him finish the sentence in his head. Hope. It's an important thing.
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She nods as he theorizes about the nature of this place. "At least it isn't powered by kid-screams," she mutters, then speaks up. "Well, thing is, saying that a soul is a specific sort of energy is like saying that a person is a specific sort of meat. Energy makes up a soul, but its arrangement is uniquely complicated, person to person. Like the energy driving all living things, it is also self-propagating: a soul generates energy, radiates it, connects to others with it."
She helps him up onto the front stoop of the apartment building and stomps snow off her boots. Dog sits down next to him for a moment, panting. "You can technically trap a soul or other spirit entity in a vessel of some kind. For some of the nasty ones it's the only way to get rid of the damn things. But usually that's a horrific experience for the being involved. The only time it isn't is when they volunteer. My tradition makes different devices which are inhabited voluntarily by spirits and powered by their nature and energies. I actually have two with me."
Dog trots in through the door ahead of them. Ashe touches Walter on the back gently. "It's anything but a bad thing, Doc, think about it. If you have two Awakened people working to get you out of here, and both of us have experience in world-crossing...." she lets him finish the sentence in his head. Hope. It's an important thing.