Not concern in that respect, no... though I can't say I won't be happier if you avoid leading any charges for a while. [At least for a while, Haurchefant...]
I meant more the speculation about what the anomaly did to you. The question of whether you are - you, for lack of an easier description.
[A long moment's silence. Despite having asked the question openly, Beckett is taken very much aback.]
It's been less than two weeks. It would be a very odd death price, but still... or then, it's possible that it's simply an effect of revival itself. There was the little fiasco with House's healed leg, I seem to recall.
I've seen it. It was real. [Whatever other implications there are, he can't leave Haurchefant to mistrust the evidence of his own senses. It seems a painful thing for such a self-assured, powerful man.]
It's odd that whatever has healed you before - brought you back the first time - has not healed that too, but we know the process is not entirely reliable. There are explanations other than House's rather extravagant theory of anomaly body-snatching.
I have a main one, but it is... sketchy. It covers the bigger picture but not the finer detail. And I'm still at a complete loss as for the pertinent issue - how a dead man and an undead one can be walking around in at least the Norfinbury version of perfect health.
I've often thought it was our souls and naught more that came here. A perfect likeness of us is crafted when we arrive but our true bodies are elsewhere.
It must be so, yes? I have spoken with people here who have seen my fallen form. Who entombed me back in Ishgard.
I can't rule this out. [But it unnerves him very deeply. Only a little of that is in his voice, but it takes concerted effort.] So now you know for certain that these others have seen your body dead, seen it buried? That still doesn't cover everything - they could be coming from a similar world in which you were not taken to Norfinbury at your death.
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I meant more the speculation about what the anomaly did to you. The question of whether you are - you, for lack of an easier description.
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Whether the body I possess is my own I know not...
But I told you that I died before I ever came here. Any form of me that others have seen in Norfinbury may have been a construct of this place.
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[He trails off, rather sure he isn't helping. Not if his original worry for Haurchefant's sake was on point, at least.]
A body is only that, some would say. But... do you still have the scar?
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It's been less than two weeks. It would be a very odd death price, but still... or then, it's possible that it's simply an effect of revival itself. There was the little fiasco with House's healed leg, I seem to recall.
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I've since recovered. That, I think, is the price that I paid...
The scar I am less certain about. Mayhap I've never had one there.... It has been hard to for anyone to trust their eyes of late.
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It's odd that whatever has healed you before - brought you back the first time - has not healed that too, but we know the process is not entirely reliable. There are explanations other than House's rather extravagant theory of anomaly body-snatching.
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I've often thought it was our souls and naught more that came here. A perfect likeness of us is crafted when we arrive but our true bodies are elsewhere.
It must be so, yes? I have spoken with people here who have seen my fallen form. Who entombed me back in Ishgard.
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