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Then we should start studying as soon as we can. I can tell you what I know.

[ This is a good distraction from the cursed candies! ]

[The best distraction! Rita's completely forgotten about them for the moment.]

Then start. I want to know everything.

[ He pulls himself out of her hug - it's a little hot to cling to each other with the way the City is heating up. ]

All right. Even back home, you need to have a True Rune's power to do it. That or it happens randomly...

[She hadn't even realized how warm she was getting, what with everything else going on, but now she gives him her full attention.]

Wait--it can happen randomly in your world?

[ He nods. ] Yeah... It's usually a bad thing... Monsters can come from other worlds.

Really? Is this a common thing?

[ He shakes his head. ] Not really... I always thought it was just a weird fluke when I heard of it happening...

[She nods. It sounds like it'd be a big problem if it happened often.] So...any idea how it could happen? Or--do you know anything about the rune that can cause it?

I don't know... It just has to do with the power of the runes...

[ He looks off to the side as he confesses- ] I probably wouldn't be able to control the Soul Eater enough to do that even if I knew how it worked...

[She tilts her head curiously at that.] That isn't the power of the Soul Eater though, right? They all work differently?

[ He shrugs. ] I don't know... They're all different, but there are things they all have in common, too...

Yeah...But have you ever heard of the Soul Eater doing anything like that?

[ More quietly- ] I don't really know that much about this rune, either...

[Her expression softens, and she nods.] It's not like you could just let anyone research it. Even I couldn't do a full analysis.

I wouldn't mind if you did... You only really tested the spells before.

N-no, I mean- [Maybe she shouldn't have said anything. She quickly shakes her head.] It'd be painful. I don't want to do that.

"Painful"?

[ He can't help but be concerned when she says that. What kind of tests would she have run? ]

Yeah. Like...Trying to take it apart.

[She's not going to lie to him about what it would entail, but she really hopes he doesn't think that she'd ever do that to him. The idea nearly makes her skin crawl.]

[ Visibly so for Tyr. He cringes, but he doesn't think she'd ever do that to him. ]

You can't do that with runes anyway--can you?

[ She does have those rune crystals... ]

I don't know--I haven't tried.

[Even if she could take the crystals apart, it wouldn't investigate the changes when it was attached to someone...]

[ He isn't even thinking of that. ]

Then you should try it on them first and see what you can get out of that any information of of them.

[And she...decides to mention it anyway, since she has a habit of just saying what she's thinking.]

I'll see what I can do...There's just no way I'll try anything like that while they're attached to anyone.

[ That seems so obvious to Tyr, and his voice says as much. ]

Of course you wouldn't. I don't think they'd be any easier to test when they're in someone's hand--it'd probably be harder.

[ Or she might do it if she was evil... Not that he wants to think of that version of her. ]

[She doesn't want to think about what the other version of her would do, either--it's precisely because of it that the idea of...dissecting someone creeps her out so much more than it would have, even before.]

Yeah. It's just...I was thinking there could be changes when it's attached to someone.

[ He doesn't want her to even think that far. The Rita he knows would never use people that way. ]

I don't think they would change that much... The true runes probably don't, anyway...

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