On the back porch of the Grand House, three people stared at a glass jar placed on a bench. Wander's little clone looked like squashed pumpkin flesh. Of course, it was black and red in color, so it was even more disgusting. It sticks to the bottom of the jar, occasionally lifting up a thread-like tentacle and moving its position to avoid the sunlight penetrating into the jar.
Danny frowned and reached out to move the jar into the shadows. The tentacles squirmed, and the red was wrapped in black, completely disappearing into the shadows. It looked like this was an empty bottle with nothing inside.
Matthew pushed the jar curiously, and the Wander at the bottom appeared again, its color slightly different from the surrounding shadows. The black squirmed again for a moment, then merged with the shadow and disappeared.
Matthew still wanted to move, but Danny stopped him.
"She is very weak, stop playing around." The Phantom Man frowned and looked up at the blue undead floating next to him, Dylan, "This is the Shadow Man."
Danny is teaching, "They move in the shadows, exposure to the light makes them weak."
"Why?" Matthew asked. The regret of the young wolf yesterday was that he didn't see Wandel himself. Now Benjamin was talking to Zach in the office. He had a chance to learn real knowledge and he didn't want to miss it.
Danny thought for a while, "Shadows are projections, shapes imprinted by light. They are the most basic and original existence of things."
Matthew blinked. This guy who is twenty years old as a human and two months old as an alien werewolf only thinks that this seems to make sense, but if you want to understand, don't embarrass this honest young man.
"Then is she always so weak in places with light?" Matthew asked.
Danny shook his head and said to Dylan, "Where there is light, there is shadow. It's just the difference between light and dark." Danny's teaching goal was not Matthew. In fact, he was helpless as to why the young wolf kept running away. By coming here, it would be too aggrieved for Alpha to give him the impression that he had crossed the line and angered Alpha.
"But it's just easier for them to move at night. Is this easy to understand?"
Dylan nodded and Matthew shook his head. Danny frowned in confusion, "Matthew, because the shadow range is large enough and thick enough at night."
"Oh." Matthew nodded honestly.
"How will she recover?" Dylan approached the jar and looked at the empty bottom. He knew that Wander's clone was there, even though he couldn't see it. This was the advantage of the soul-like alien race. He didn't know why, and Danny couldn't explain it.
"Liberate completely and absorb the essence from the shadow." Danny frowned, and the task of keeping the jar was naturally thrown to him.
Last night, Zach changed Wander's container and threw it to Danny on the grounds that he needed the snack jar to return to normal. Then Danny took the jar with him. Although they can't be said to be of the same race, they were both forced to this point by Crowley. Then entering the Grand House, I felt an inexplicable revolutionary emotion. We know that this fantasy man's sense of racial honor is very weak.
Knowing that the other party was in the chaotic city of Newton, Danny did not dare to disturb Wander. In the early morning, Wander, who had begun to lurk, had some time. So the two alien souls began to have some simple exchanges, but midway, Wandel suddenly interrupted the conversation and fell completely silent.
Danny didn't know what was happening, he could only see the tentacles that were constantly deforming and twisting inside the jar. Make sure the other party is fighting. Just now, Wandel calmed down, replied that he must rest, and then lost his voice again.
Dylan is curious about Wander and has revolutionary feelings similar to Danny's - they both hate Crowley. Michelle is still under Crowley's control!
Dylan swayed around the jar, and continued to ask in a low voice as if he was afraid of waking the other party, "Do the soul aliens all absorb ** to survive? Shadow people, you, both." This is not what Dylan really means. Question, "Where is the devil? I, from now on..."
Danny glanced at Dylan, and there were slightly deep wrinkles on his blue, translucent face. The emotion of asking this question is the same as Louise asking Zach if he can only live on blood in the future.
Danny thought, and he wanted to answer in a more tactful way, "You are wrong to say that. It has nothing to do with the alien race, but the way the soul exists. The soul relies on imprints to maintain its existence. Even humans, the experiences they have while alive, Ideas, these are all imprints of the soul. **, they are just a kind of idea. It’s just that when our alien souls lack the power to move and cannot create real experiences, they use this method to, well, borrow, borrow the imprints of others. Sustain your own existence.”
Matthew was confused again. Although he listened very hard, he was helpless because he really had no talent for learning.
Alpha Benjamin once briefly talked about the werewolf's soul. He knew that his soul was empty and should have been dissipated. Just like a person whose body is forcibly burned by flames, the corresponding connection with the soul is erased and the mark in the soul is Disappear due to loss of belonging, and then the empty soul will return to nothingness.
But the werewolf's body trapped this empty soul that should have been dissipated and turned into another life form.
"Then what I'm going through now..." Matthew looked like he was thinking bitterly, "Where have those marks gone? My wolf, is it keeping it for me? Then my soul, uh, its soul, in the end Mine or his?”
Danny opened his mouth, but Matthew's interruption made him helpless again. I'm afraid even Alpha can't answer this question. He wants to ask Papa at midnight!
Before Danny could think of how to get rid of Matthew quickly, Matthew suddenly had a bright idea, "I don't remember Yuanyuan's transformation and its experience at all. Does that mean that the soul actually belongs to it? I no longer have it." Soul?"
Matthew was stunned for a moment, looking ahead unfocused, tilted his head, pressed his chest, and said blankly, "I don't have a soul anymore, but I still have a soul, but it's not mine, but it's in my body." inside."
The young wolf wrapped himself around it and froze on the bench.
Danny closed his open mouth. It turned out that Matthew was just a forced practical education with Benjamin, and theory was not suitable for him.
Dylan dangled in front of Danny. He didn't want to comment on the rest of the Grand House. His question had not yet been answered.
Danny glanced at Dylan, pursed his lips, and continued to answer the question, "So the soul-like alien race always returns to the issue of having an entity. Otherwise, it will always be just a dispensable thing attached to the existence of other things. It’s just a little freer than the Earthbinder.”
Dylan thought for a while, "Now I am in hell attached to the faith of the Holy Lord. The faith of countless people is maintaining my existence for me."
Danny nodded, hoping that was the end of Dylan's questions. He was disappointed.
"Then what?" Dylan looked at Danny, "I know, even if you are absorbing people's essence, maintaining existence, having an entity, and having the ability to affect the world. But you are not just a land-bound person with freedom of movement. Spirit, just like me. You have also lost something, and the *** you borrowed has caused changes in yourself."
There was a trace of apology on Dylan's face. After spending a few days together, he almost realized that Danny's ideal life state was to be a 'free earthbinder'. If it weren't for his phantom nature, he might not appear at all in the image in other people's minds.
Dylan pointed at the transparent 'empty' jar, "She, Wandel, has the ability to be possessed temporarily, but she no longer has her own body. She is just like a shadow, forever wandering in the shadow, and will always be just a person. It's just a shape. If it weren't for Benjamin, she might never be able to return to her own shape."
There are gains and losses, everything is just addition and subtraction.
"I will become a demon, and I will have the ability to affect entities." Dylan thought for a moment, "What will I lose?"
Danny the Illusive Man pursed his lips, "You will not lose your life, you will retain your current appearance, and you will also gain the form of a demon. In different worlds, you can freely switch. You can do nothing. There will be many more losses. Because demons are different from alien souls like us, and the things you maintain to maintain your existence are different from us."
Thoughts, as **, have been occupied by alien souls that Danny said represented, what is left for the devil? In fact, Matthew has already given hints, experience.
Dylan first wondered, then thought, and finally looked at Matthew.
"Me, I will take away other people's experiences and take the soul marks formed by other people's experiences as my own." Dylan looked at Danny, "Where do these marks come from?"
Danny shook his head and pointed to the ground. From those souls who entered hell under the faith of the Holy Lord.
"I..." Dylan's face had completely darkened, "What should I do, take it away?"
Danny's pursed mouth opened and he made a biting motion.
Dylan was silent.
It's still just addition and subtraction, there's no 'getting' of just good things. Hell is a prison that represents punishment, and this is their punishment.
Danny seemed to want to comfort Dylan, "You don't have to think about this. You are born with it. You don't have to maintain yourself. Faith will maintain your existence." Danny looked at Dylan, "If you use those powers, you will also There is no need to rob other people's souls, you will exist freely, and even if there is a body for you to integrate into, you can live like an ordinary human being."
Dylan remained silent, which was no comfort. People with abilities will encounter times when they need to use their abilities anyway.
"Matthew!" Benjamin's voice came from inside the house.
Because Matthew, who was in a daze, was still listening to the conversation between the two, he just added another sentence to his muttering, "Did I raise a devil in my body? Is that what you mean? Danny? In my body There is a demon, I am a container, I am the container of the wolf demon..."
So Benjamin couldn't help it anymore, his young wolf was going to be spoiled. (..)