Memory

Myriad Reality

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Sounds good. Since we're here more to help than teach, I'm going to forego use of the usual methods and use a few shortcuts. But go ahead and start forming the big ones from the supply.

*Gestures to the machine as I continue to feed the spinal cord an invisible power and force it to grow*

I'll get the bones started.

*Goes to take a small fraction of bone from Artemis, then starts pouring the same force into it to recreate it cell by cell*

@Yatagarasu

*Takes a sample of her torso muscular structure, verifies that it's free from cross-contamination, and carries it with me in a test tube to the machine*

Myriad Reality

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I'm not positive that it's a good thing to listen to, but I'll make sure to document it, then.

*Opens the machine where the liquid is now full of what seems to be loose but healthy flesh, then goes to take the start of the nervous system I had been growing before Dawn got here out of the box*

Alright. Stella, do you want to work with bone or muscle, this time?

@Yatagarasu

I like bone better, but that's why I need more practice with muscle. Let's do that.

Myriad Reality

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Alright, I'm going to have the active part of the room separated from the rest, so everybody who isn't operating doesn't have to experience the next part with their senses.

*Walks over to a keypad and presses some of the buttons, causing a large wall to lower slightly above the middle of the room*

I'll lower that fully once everyone's in place. Stella, are you okay with continuing to help? You've done great so far, but I don't want to make you keep working if you don't want to.

@Yatagarasu

How am I s'posed to get better if I'm not helping?

Myriad Reality

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*In a jerky set of motions, shifts my gaze over to the soul trap*
That helps a lot, thank you.

@Meta

Way to go, Dawn. You should do this more often.

Myriad Reality

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I meant th-
*Shakes my head*
Nevermind. From what I heard- I got here late- is that they know she’s a clone. But might need you to verify that for certain?

@Audacious

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I... I could, but honestly Stella's—

@Meta

They want to figure out whether the patient is the same version of their friend that they recognize, not a different clone. Apparently they didn't realize they were friends with a clone at all until today.

Myriad Reality

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You do radiate confidence, and the enthusiasm that cones with it. That’s not such a bad thing, is it?

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*Holds my hands out toward you to emphasize your point*

@Audacious

Well, we said we were going to fix your friend, right? We'd look bad if we weren't ready to do something way harder than that.

Myriad Reality

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Oh yeah, we’ve met her.
*Looks her way*
She’s got some pep in her, for sure.

@Audacious

*Sticks my gloves into one of the sanitizing mists*
I'm tempted to resent that.

Myriad Reality

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*Narrows my eyes ever so slightly in thought*
… Scarily good. I give you scarily good.

@Audacious

Just wait and see. You'll be impressed.

Myriad Reality

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Typically that'll do insignificant 'dimming,' just barely enough to be notable. But most types of souls recover from that pretty quickly, even outside of the body.

@Yatagarasu

Can they make a soul harder to recover? Like some kind of anti-recovery poison?

Myriad Reality

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Looks like we’ll get to ask, too. These folks seem like a well oiled machine.

@Audacious

*Snaps*
Best in all the worlds.

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*Smiles and records another*

Thanks, Dawn. I appreciate it. We're in Lab K. I'll cover things before you get here.

*Sends the message*

Dawn'll be here in a little bit. Let's get the patient covered up.

*Looks to Envy*

Take her dad to another area for a bit, okay?

*Envy nods and picks his corpse up, walking through a door in the back as I start draping sheets over Artemis*

Oh, right.

*Places the growing spinal cord in a box*

Well, Stella, in most human-esque species, the soul is interlinked with part of the consciousness. The more you feel something extreme, especially things like hatred, the more the soul reacts. If she was trying to harm herself, for example, that would link to a dimming of her soul.

*Pauses*

But mind-altering substances can also give a temporary dimming, due to the disruption of the consciousness.

@Yatagarasu

Huh. Amazing, I take it back, I was wrong.
*Listens, enamored with the lesson*
What if you knocked someone out before killing them? What would happen to their soul?