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[denyamenti]

I'm starting to think these World Turtles have a fascination with using people's souls as cosmic currency in some way or another.

[ Someone's grouchier than usual today. And apparently uncaring about the hypocrisy of him presenting this particular argument. ]

That's the only reason I can think of for why they're continually attaching ours to some kind of tangible reminder: first lanterns, then jewels, now being marked like a gods-damned heifer at market.

At least no one should be able to swallow these tattoos, unlike the gems-- and before anyone asks, yes, that's a thing someone tried once.

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[denyamenti]

I have some experience in handling souls, that's how.

[driverslicense]

Then you know for sure. The tattoos have our souls in them.

Do you know the method?

[denyamenti]

Not in them, no. They're more like anchors.

Method for which part, exactly?

[driverslicense]

["Anchors"? Now he's lost again. But first things first—]

For getting the tattoos on.

[denyamenti]

I don't know how to get this sort on, nor off. I'm no mage. I said I could tell they're soulbound, that's all.

[driverslicense]

[That statement lets him put it together with the "anchor" comment. He's got it now.]

[...Kind of. Roidmude have Cores; he's only assuming a soul is much the same thing.]

Do they share other similarities? [Souls aside, it might not be the same thing, if the form's changed. From his experience, anyway.]

[denyamenti]

[ Chase probably isn't inaccurate in the metaphor, to be honest. Bakura's also having a time following Chase's questions, which seem to jump from context to context. ]

Souls are a near-universal thing, it's only people's understandings of how they work that change.

You sound like you've never heard of such things before.

[driverslicense]

[Chase is just tossing out the things he wants to know, so long as Bakura is willing to answer. His conclusions, he keeps to himself; not so much habit as not feeling like he has to share them or to provide reasons for his asking.]

I've heard of them. [He's just never put much thought into it. His concern was always for the lives of humans, not so much their souls.]

Did the other objects have a function other than anchoring the soul?

[denyamenti]

Not that I know of, just the side effects I mentioned before.

Although I suppose if I wanted to be less charitable about it, they did function as leashes of a sort.

[driverslicense]

Leash...? They restricted your movements?

["Can't be separated from it" is one, he supposes, but it seems to him that having a soul...detached, kind of, like that would only be a personal threat if there were someone threatening the soul to begin with.]

[denyamenti]

It lost power if removed too far from the turtle's landmass.. I wonder, if that is still the same.

[driverslicense]

[That certainly is a leash.]

If it is the same...then that means our souls will be detached when we leave.

[For him, who's pretty sure he's dead, that doesn't have good implications. But, well, it's not like he was jumping at the chance for a second life; he currently finds himself too purposeless to be glad for it. On the other hand, he isn't volunteering to test Bakura's theory, either.]

[And he belatedly realizes that for humans, having their souls separated from their bodies isn't good to begin with.]

You encountered this problem, before?