[The mouse leans happily into Cecil's finger. :>

Barakiel, meanwhile...figures that he can't avoid answering now that Cecil's brought that all up. Welp.]

Kind of? Well...yes, actually, it was. But it wasn't really like this either... In my world--at that time--it was more like, I was all soul? Well, we all were. So it was pretty ordinary. Not, you know. Some kind of special soul...thing.