"I guess someone who knew them could check and see if they were the same."

" - okay. Uh, would you be willing to tell me if that happens, so we can try it? Why does it mean they might as well die, if they're not the same..."

"Who wants to support a useless stranger?"

"Me."

"Are you going to just follow me around, to be told when someone has a blinding accident, it's not like that happens every year."

"I can give you pieces of parchment that are special so when you draw on them I see it, and we could agree on a drawing that means I should come for some reason."

"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."