[He's just going to press his hand over his mouth and rub his chin as he tries to. Process that.]
Apologies if this may sound crass, but are souls just ripe for the picking in your world? What even happens to them when you use them?
[The concept of an afterlife is about the same as any other world for him, where one can either believe it or not. If there is something like a place where the souls go or rejoin to the planet like some kind of lifestream, there has been no proof or mythology around it. So really it's only here in this world where he was able to actually see ghosts and the like that it felt such a thing may be possible.
Even so, believed in or not, the concept is still considered part of one's humanity, being—"sacred." To hear someone use a soul sounds no different than using the person themself, and against their own will. And that is what unsettles him most.
Especially given his own current "condition" along with particular others that he knows.]
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Apologies if this may sound crass, but are souls just ripe for the picking in your world? What even happens to them when you use them?
[The concept of an afterlife is about the same as any other world for him, where one can either believe it or not. If there is something like a place where the souls go or rejoin to the planet like some kind of lifestream, there has been no proof or mythology around it. So really it's only here in this world where he was able to actually see ghosts and the like that it felt such a thing may be possible.
Even so, believed in or not, the concept is still considered part of one's humanity, being—"sacred." To hear someone use a soul sounds no different than using the person themself, and against their own will. And that is what unsettles him most.
Especially given his own current "condition" along with particular others that he knows.]