[ At the least, he can get the eager offer out before she asks him about his own Soul. It's an elusive thing, but he's noticed some similarities between himself and others. The dread aura, the draw to death and dead things. The steadily intensifying sickness within him. ]

I think it's dead. My Natural Soul, I mean. Patho-Gen's had me in check-ups since arrival, 'cause I was dead, too. And all the things that are happening... they make sense if it's dead.