Case 132

[manofgnee]

Aw geez, it's one of these curses.

...Okay, cool. Welcome, new people! Please do not feed the citizens, as some of them might get ticked off. If you want to give presents to your objects of stalker affection, come down to Ajisai to buy them flowers! Because nothing says I love you like flowers!

Other than that, enjoy the sights, have fun, and try not to step on too many people's feet. Seriously, that hurts.


...

Gallahad...? Are you here...? Worth? Conrad, Lamont, Veser, Toni, any of you guys?

...please, please be here...just for a little bit...


...What about Watanuki? Doumeki, Timothy? Thomas, Harry, any of you guys here today? Please?

Comments

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

We're not talking about the same person, are we.

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

What makes you think that?

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

I dunno, you just seem really, really off...

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

Hell tends to have that effect on a guy.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

[Hanna is stunned.]

Sam...

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

What? Something I said?

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...No, I guess not.

[He's starting to figure it out...]

...How long have you been like this?

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

Little over a year.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...Dean's helping you out with making big moral choices, I hope...

....and...well, apart from the lack of soul, are you all right? There are all sorts of physical complications that can come from being without a soul for too long...

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

How'd you know?

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

I've seen it once before. Different signs and probably different causes, but I've seen it.

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

You've seen it before. Do you know if there's a way to fix it?

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

Well, that's complicated. It depends on whether or not the soul is ripped from the body, or they're separated with relatively little conflict...

Either way, the main thing to do is a binding ritual when the soul is relocated...keeping it in one place long enough to do that, though...

[Speaking from personal experience here, perhaps?]

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

And if it fails?

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

Possible damage to the body, depending on how long the soul's been away and what exact binding spell you use. Again, it seems to vary from case to case, so.

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

Do you think it's important to have it?

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...Yeah, I do, honestly.

You can survive without it, sure, but...well, it's not really living.

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

What if getting it back meant not really living anymore?

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

As in dying?

...hm. It's a tough choice. Living without a soul and therefore not being able to understand certain emotional and moral issues...or getting that soul back, even if it means dying.

...personally, I'd be happy knowing that, even if I died, for just a moment I got to really live again.

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

No, worse than that. Not dying. Living through everything that happened to me in Hell and never being able to escape it.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

...Oh.

....That...is much different. I don't know what I'd do, man...

...what do you want?

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

Apparently what I want doesn't matter. Dean's dead set on shoving that broken thing back inside me, even though it'll tear me apart.

[manofgnee.livejournal.com]

Does he realize how risky that is?

[ifionlyhadasoul.livejournal.com]

Don't think he cares. He's more concerned with getting his baby brother back.