( He holds up a finger, then lowers it, eyes squinting in thought. )
Not a puppet, then. How does anything circulate? Either fluids, or spiritual qi... if that's a concept you also have?
( None of what he says is a match to his own world, but at this point, two months and more in to this journey, he's not surprised. Mostly fascinated. )
Mm, we don't have bodied dead, but spirits that stay—each has a different level of memory or emotional strength, usually aimed toward what it is keeping them from passing on toward reincarnation. You can hear those ones, if you're sensitive to them.
( which generally speaking, cultivators were, but normal untrained people could be as well. He wonders at how different it is for a bodied dead, and for this person in particular. )
What about the brain makes it desirable? I almost wonder if you would be absorbing its essence just through a crude, straightforward fashion...
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Not a puppet, then. How does anything circulate? Either fluids, or spiritual qi... if that's a concept you also have?
( None of what he says is a match to his own world, but at this point, two months and more in to this journey, he's not surprised. Mostly fascinated. )
Mm, we don't have bodied dead, but spirits that stay—each has a different level of memory or emotional strength, usually aimed toward what it is keeping them from passing on toward reincarnation. You can hear those ones, if you're sensitive to them.
( which generally speaking, cultivators were, but normal untrained people could be as well. He wonders at how different it is for a bodied dead, and for this person in particular. )
What about the brain makes it desirable? I almost wonder if you would be absorbing its essence just through a crude, straightforward fashion...