But Eris Prime hadn’t been an exercise.
Ikeda. The one she’d tried to save. The one whose ghost had nowhere to go.
She gasped on a steel table, her new lungs raw as sandpaper. Above her, a halo of diagnostic drones whirred, their blue light painting sterile white walls. She tried to sit up, but her body— this body—refused to obey. Too heavy. Too slow. As if her consciousness had been poured into a suit of wet clay. soul descent
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“The others?” she asked.
: Historically, scholars identify two conflicting reasons for this descent:
Died well. She’d been vaporized by a plasma mortar while screaming for a medic to save the soldier to her left. His descent had failed. His ghost had nowhere to go. But Eris Prime hadn’t been an exercise
Elara stood very still. The new heart in this new chest was beating a steady, mechanical rhythm—but somewhere deeper, the ghost of her old heart was still screaming.
She called it falling. And she was still falling now. The one whose ghost had nowhere to go
She thought about the word descent . It implied a direction. Down. Into the underworld. Orpheus going after Eurydice. Dante climbing through hell.
: A more critical view suggests the soul descends due to a desire for independence or "audacity," choosing to isolate itself from the divine harmony.