<sub>[ Some planet specific terminology, but it's not too difficult to make inferences. She was stripped of a body because she had died, and for some reason, had persisted in a stable form. It sounded a bit like the unusual circumstances were explicitly because of her being sacrificed. 'Far Shore' is an interesting name -- it could be nothing, a place as any other, but it could be an epithet for the final destination of the dead. 'Core of the Far Shore' where dying would 'finalize?' Yeeeeeeup, that's a crystal absorbing your memories into itself to grow, alright.

Still, there sounds like many differences .. what varied between planet to planet was always fascinating. ]</sub>

It sounds like you had quite the close call.

_{[ get too close to that 'core,' and it's curtains, he bets. ]}

You probably don't need me to say it, but... Take especial care with what you do now, until, perhaps, a day comes when you've another body to shield you. There are things dangerous to a wandering soul that are not, in normal circumstances, and I would wager being able to walk the earth would not make you immune to them.

<sub>[ after all, he needs Aoi alive. already there are people in the town falling all over themselves to help this girl.

if they can find a solution to the problem of a damaged soul, then that could mean... ]</sub>