The same job the avatars can use? Great. If it was that whole, mind control/illusion thing that they've already been subjected to...

Well, Mithos had tried the same thing with her once before. And she got through that with the simple thought that she was who she was. And that it was all right for her to be alive and be there. She sighed and pushed herself from the wall to start back down the stairs.

"Damnation or salvation." She had said those words then, and they were appropriate even now. From what the Sage and Kalki had said, they were going to fight the part of themselves they denied...

A mental battle... Which was a lot worse than a physical one. All you got from the latter was the chance of dying. The former: a living death.

And by Martel, she didn't want to be a Lifeless Being.