Ariel had her fist pressed to her lips and her eyes down, only half-listening to Ahnasha as she paced very slowly around in her limited tent space. She was in intensely deep thought, the likes of which were familiar to anyone who had seen her trying to formulate her solution to the soul tearing gas, and as such her subsequent silence remained uninterrupted even with Ahnasha's question until she was finally ready to speak.

"I think the first stage must be exploratory," Ariel surmised. "There are so many unknowns. There are...possibilities of exploiting the sort of binding that naturally occurs between soul and lycan daedra in any werewolf. I call it the [i]perennial binding[/i] in my book. It's has similarities to the binding between soul and a physical body but..." she gestured with her hands as if moulding a piece of clay. "It does not behave the same way. And I have no idea whether it would be strong enough. And..." She let out the rest of her breath and faced everyone with more determination. "If I have to make an educated guess based on my research, the soul tearing gas, and...my own previous projects with inhaled anti-animants, is you may have to undergo one or more of three things." She cleared her throat and quickly added. "If they are even possible, that is. And notwithstanding any new information." She took a nervous breath. "Anyway, the first is to make your werewolf spirit more powerful. To the point where it might become more of you than you. The second is to find a way to...sort of cut away a portion of your soul so a more stable remainder can pass on intact -- I would rather we not consider that if at all possible for I hope are quite clear reasons. The third is to find a way to stymie the process that causes one's soul to destabilise in the first place much like the inoculation to the soul-tearing effect, but finding a way to do that without any physical anchor, let alone a permanent solution, is hardly worth calling a theory."

Ariel pursed her lips together and swallowed, trying to force a smile to make herself feel less guilty. "Perhaps," she said with some mustered optimism, "your quite experienced friend can open up our options a little."