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filtered from Carlisle;

Someone want to tell me how to make a phylactery?

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( Which is great and everything but she's a little tired of people being like "oh don't do the bad thing but I won't actually explain anything". )

Running out of other options.

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[ He'd be perfectly happy to tell the whole miserable story, but only if she asks. People usually don't ask. ]

What is the problem, exactly? Why are you down to only one option?

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( By now, she's had more than enough of talking about why this is so terrible. Sue a woman for spending months seeing her friend's soul literally leaking out of his body and feeling desperate to prevent that. )

Taken too long trying to fix things and running out of soul to save.

( Cryptic, party of one; cryptic, party of one. )

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ Her frustration is understandable! ]

Running out of soul? What a minute. You're trying to save a soul, and it's. . . diminishing? Dying? Is that what you're saying? Whose soul? Yours, or someone else's?

[ Because if Kate were talking about her own soul, she'd be in worse shape than she looks to be at this moment, wouldn't she?? ]

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( And here, in the saga of Kate trying not to outright lie to people but also protect Carlisle's situation, we have... a snarky answer. )

I look like my soul's dying?

( Does her world even have souls? Does she? It's all a mystery. )

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ And of course she wants to protect her friend. That's natural! ]

No, Kate, you don't look like your soul is dying. [ A long, long way from it! ]

[ One of the Great Questions asked by all sentient beings? ]

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Got your answer then, don't you?

( S i g h. )

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[so_dark_a_road]

Yes.

You're saying that you're doing this for someone else, that it isn't your soul that's going into the phylactery.

Tell me, how dangerous is this for that person and for you?

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Too dangerous to be worth it.

( Unless there is a significantly different version somewhere in all the multiverses. )

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So. . . if it's too dangerous, then why are you asking about how to do it?

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Didn't know how dangerous it was until now.

( It was described as being like an enchantment, and she used to make those as easily as she breathed for the most part. How much different could it have been? )

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And if people are telling you it is dangerous, I'm sure that is true. I can't imagine what you're describing as NOT being horribly dangerous.

So are you saying you aren't going to do it?

[ Because different as they are, he and Kate are both risk-takers. If she's going to get herself killed or worse, he at least wants to know about it. Hadriel would not be the same without her, not even if it were a temporary sort of dissolution. ]

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( Taking a risk to save someone if all it affects if herself is one thing. Making them take on that risk... no. She can't. Not for a friend, anyway. )

No. I'm not.

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[ Very important distinction! ]

I'm glad.