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It was very difficult to get things done when your best friend (or boyfriend or mate or whatever the appropriate title actually was) was living in your head. Goliath did his best to allow Elisa to remain in control of her own body, but it wasn’t easy. For either of them.

After all, as well as sharing a body, they shared thoughts and feelings. For Elisa, who was far from forthcoming when it came to her emotions, it was proving to be a constant battle. In many ways, it would have been easier to share with a stranger. They’d reached a comfortable balance in their relationship since she’d woken up from the pods and she didn’t want to disturb that. Not when things were going so well.

If the way that Goliath kept trying to focus on his favourite plays and novels was any indication, the gargoyle was finding it just as hard to keep things that he wouldn’t ordinarily share concealed. And spending a long time as a human was definitely something it would take him a long time to get used it. Elisa sincerely hoped that he wouldn’t have to get used to it. They knew who was responsible for the chaos now. (The goddess, if that was what she really was, hadn’t been particularly secretive.) What they didn’t know was how to persuade her to change them back.

They’d find out.

OOC: Open to anyone who would like to bother Goliath and / or Elisa while they're stuck together during the soulcatcher plot.

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Well, yelling it was. Atom put his hands over his mouth like a megaphone, calling up to the top of the castle.

"Heyyyyyy! Is anyone in there?"

Agreed.

Goliath was as restless as she was, perhaps more so for all that he missed having his own legs to stretch.

It seems we have a visitor. Fortunately he recognized the voice, so there was no need yet to get worked up about trespassers - which were the least of his current problems anyway, he recognized, even as he thought it.

Because Goliath could remember Atom, Elisa could suddenly picture and remember Goliath's exchange with the boy, as well as Goliath's general feeling that he'd seemed like a good kid.

Before she could ask who it was, Goliath's memories supplied the answer. (Which was an unusual experience in itself.) She wasn't a naturally trusting sort of person, but Goliath had good instincts, most of the time, and she trusted him implicitly.

"Then I guess we should go and say hello."

Although I'm not sure how we're going to explain this.

She hoped that he already had some idea of what was going on across the ship.

I meant to introduce you in any case.If the subject arises, please give him my greetings.

Otherwise it might have been better for him just to sit this exchange out - as he had been attempting to sit most other things out, rather than impose on Elisa's right to her own body.

That he had to give up his own active presence in any matters to do so continued to frustrate him, but that was what their research was for - and they wouldn't continue to be productive at it without a break.

Hmm. Maybe Goliath wasn't home. Should he go? There was a lot of screwy stuff going on with this bodysharing thing; maybe he was busy breaking up fights or trying to figure out what was going on.

"Okay, I'll come back later!" Atom announced, giving the castle one last look in case someone was home after all.

"It's ok," she called, stepping out of the library to catch him before he departed. "I'm here. I mean, we're here. It's complicated."

She appreciated Goliath's attempts to allow her to act independently, but they weren't as successful as they would have been if she hadn't been able to feel his frustrations at the same time. Besides, Atom was his friend. It wouldn't have been fair of her to expect him to sit the conversation out.

"I'm Elisa. Have you been keeping up with ship news lately?"

If he had, it would make things a lot easier.

Oh, it was that detective from Security. Atom had seen her around, but never actually talked to her before. He gave her a little wave. "I'm Atom. And yeah, I have. A bunch of people have been showing up with the same body. Nothing like this ever happened on Earth... oh, are you a friend of Goliath's?"

"I am." That was one way of putting it, anyway. They were still ironing out the fine print. (Though the soft smile that illustrated her answer probably went some way towards explaining what they'd yet to put a name to.) "We were both affected. Goliath is ... in here too."

In their world, something like this had happened before. But it had been voluntary - Broadway and Angela had offered to let Coldfire and Coldstone use their bodies - and it had been different. More like borrowing that sharing, with the other soul lying temporarily dormant.

Atom did a double-take. "Oh. Sorry, I didn't know. Are you guys okay?"

For a little while, Atom had known what it was like to have not just two, but millions of personalities inside of him. Hopefully, it was a lot quieter and a lot less terrifying with only Elisa and Goliath.

"We're coping," said Elisa with a wry smile. That was an honest answer. She couldn't say that she was finding the situation easy to deal with - the fact that they were unable to keep their thoughts and emotions to themselves was particularly hard - but it could have been worse. At least she trusted Goliath. It would have been horrible to have a stranger in here with her.

"What about you? You're still ... yourself?"

"Yep!" Atom said, tapping his chest with his fist. "Guess whatever caused this doesn't affect robots. Or maybe I was just lucky. Anyway, don't worry -- we'll definitely get to the bottom of this!"

Somehow. Despite not knowing what was causing it in the first place.

"It could be both," she noted. "There's a lot we don't understand about this spell."

There had been a time when she wouldn't have thought of robots as having souls at all, but, since then, she'd met a lot of different kinds of robots. Maybe Atom was closer to Coldstone and Coldfire than the steel clan.

Goliath saw no reason not to compare Atom to his robotic brother and sister, who were certainly souled beings.

I cannot bring myself to believe this child is without a living soul.

It was just a feeling, but it was a feeling he didn't have about other robots. Occasionally it was a feeling he didn't have about living creatures, so perhaps it could be fostered, if not relied on.

I agree.

She would have done based on Goliath’s assessment alone, but meeting him for herself only served to confirm the thoughts he’d shared with her.

We know that being a robot doesn’t mean you don’t have a soul.

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