Sometimes, all that's left are emotions after the body withers and decays. Regardless of which kind that lingers, it's still the same outcome.

Lowering the teapot back onto the table's surface, she releases it with ease. Having millennia of practice has given her time to perfect the ability of interacting with the living side of things. It wasn't always so easy.

"Certain things are better off not understood," she notes. "It'll only make your head spin."

And she had lost hers.