The crystals- ah, you mean the soul container parasitically bound to us.
[Sothis had been irritated upon finding it, but knew better than to mess with anything entangled within their soul energies in such a way, especially if she lacked information on how it function or how it was bound to them, exactly. Still, she could extrapolate the ritual's mechanisms - consensual blood exchange was always a reliable and easy way to transfer energies between bodies, but combined with these soul containers...]
You wish to dispel your 'light', and I desire to purge this vessel of its corrupting 'dark'. A fair trade on the surface... but such rituals tend to carry side effects. Our souls may be bared to each other, a channel opened, a vulnerability that can be taken advantage of in the moment.
[To open herself to attack like that would be stupid. Yet, there was no other way to purge this corruption, if these were the exact rules of the ritual they were already bound to complete one way of another. She debated over the risks of it all, then swept them aside. This little creature had no hope of influencing her, and for the weak link that was Byleth? She was a bulwark. Anything that wished to corrupt him would have to go through her first, and her soul may as well be a ten foot thick steel wall.]
Hm! If this is a trick to corrupt us, know that it will shatter uselessly against my unwavering will. If you are true, though, you have nothing to fear... provided that you are able to withstand the density of my soul. I have existed long before humans were even an evolutionary concept, and my perception of reality does not follow a linear path as it does for mortals. Knowing these risks, do you still wish to accept my 'darkness'?
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[Sothis had been irritated upon finding it, but knew better than to mess with anything entangled within their soul energies in such a way, especially if she lacked information on how it function or how it was bound to them, exactly. Still, she could extrapolate the ritual's mechanisms - consensual blood exchange was always a reliable and easy way to transfer energies between bodies, but combined with these soul containers...]
You wish to dispel your 'light', and I desire to purge this vessel of its corrupting 'dark'. A fair trade on the surface... but such rituals tend to carry side effects. Our souls may be bared to each other, a channel opened, a vulnerability that can be taken advantage of in the moment.
[To open herself to attack like that would be stupid. Yet, there was no other way to purge this corruption, if these were the exact rules of the ritual they were already bound to complete one way of another. She debated over the risks of it all, then swept them aside. This little creature had no hope of influencing her, and for the weak link that was Byleth? She was a bulwark. Anything that wished to corrupt him would have to go through her first, and her soul may as well be a ten foot thick steel wall.]
Hm! If this is a trick to corrupt us, know that it will shatter uselessly against my unwavering will. If you are true, though, you have nothing to fear... provided that you are able to withstand the density of my soul. I have existed long before humans were even an evolutionary concept, and my perception of reality does not follow a linear path as it does for mortals. Knowing these risks, do you still wish to accept my 'darkness'?