[ ... he sighs in exasperation, one hand scrubbing over his face. ]

You realise that's usually a demonic thing? Or it is where I'm from. Demons, gods, spirits, whatever you want to call it. It's not something most humans should deal with, because it changes how you're human... and I already mentioned sharing a body.

[ He grimaces... then seems to remember something, patting his pockets and pulling out a small glass bead. He looks down at it, then considers for a moment. ]

There are legends and stuff about reincarnating and having promises from a prior lifetime fulfilled... and there are bonds that come back, I guess, when souls with those ties are reborn again. It seems like that's what you'd really want. Not exactly binding souls, but forming a bond that's unbreakable between your hearts. Souls remember those kinds of ties.

[ Within one life, and in a reborn one, he guesses. Or something like that. Maybe he should have paid more attention to Rio when he was talking about that legend... oh well. ]