"I guess if you want to take them you can."

That's close enough. "Deal." Parchment with his name at the top.

She takes them and looks at the writing and folds them up and tucks them into a pouch.

"And maybe people should try summoning just in case it turns out when you look at their eyes it's the same person."

"Once somebody's actually died that's not going to help."

"What counts as death, what if someone gets frozen when they're irreparably injured so they can be thawed once help comes, what if their heart stops but we get it started again..."

"Those don't sound like they'd count as not dying at all."

"Starting peoples' hearts again is totally routine medical practice in places with more technology."

"Then they've got a lot of folks who don't know their loved ones died."

"And if you told them, they would say 'uh, no, he's right there', and they would be right and you would be - just using words in a way that doesn't mean anything."

"Do you do this sort of thing to darkfolk who flip levers at you, too?"

"None of them have tried explaining stupid metaphysical beliefs to me but if they did probably."

Snort.

"People on Revelation have tried explaining stupid metaphysical beliefs to me and I totally yell at them for it. Constantly. I got a vlog so I could yell at them even more."

"I don't know what Revelation or a 'flog' are."

"Revelation's a different world and a 'vlog' is a way of making recordings of yourself so people who are far away can watch them, and doing that regularly so they can follow what you're up to. The stupid metaphysical belief they have is that they have souls. They don't."

"You sure seem to think you know a lot."

"I do know a lot."

"And you're wrong about most of it."

"I'll look you up in a hundred years and if you still think so we can debate it again."

"I'm going to be gone in a hundred years."

"I will look up the magical zombie who cares about everything you care about, has thought processes continuous with you, remembers your life, and is you in every single respect except 'the way you use that word'."

"If she's so much like me she won't think she is me."

"Then I'll debate it with her."

"If it amuses you that much."