"Murfling" happens to be a neologism that floats around my life. I'd actually figured it was reasonably common. It'd be family for him, if anything.
Feedback: when you pour water from a pitcher into a pot, does the pitcher know what heppened to the water?
His not responding: She obviously doesn't think that the life thing is a big deal (or, at least, is acting like she doesn't.) He is taking that at face value. He *does* think it's a big deal (Karma is strong in his world. Furthermore, in his world, pouring out some of your life to heal someone is one of the more Karmically powerful things you can do - right up there with sacrificing some of your life to take vengeance on them - and as a spiritcaller it's *especially* meaningful to him because it's basically the foundation that spiritcallers use to bind spirits - and that has its own second-order Karmic effects.) He *really* doesn't want her to realize what a big deal it is to him.
Her strange reactions: From time to time during her career, the forces of darkness would put together illusions, waking or sleeping, either to tempt or to get information. She managed to convince them that tempting her was a lost cause, but they still tried to trick her into telling them things. One of the information bits they were *always* interested in was the combat capabilities of the girl and her team - and the illusions often started out with an appearance that everything was finally well with the world. She has *big* hangups that kick in as soon as anyone asks her what her powers (or the powers of her teammates) are - anyone, anywhere, under any circumstances.
Of course, that's just what's in my head - and that explanation won't be going into the final version. Is there anyone else who suffered a similar bit of whiplash? Should I try to tweak things to make it a bit smoother?
Feedback: when you pour water from a pitcher into a pot, does the pitcher know what heppened to the water?
His not responding: She obviously doesn't think that the life thing is a big deal (or, at least, is acting like she doesn't.) He is taking that at face value. He *does* think it's a big deal (Karma is strong in his world. Furthermore, in his world, pouring out some of your life to heal someone is one of the more Karmically powerful things you can do - right up there with sacrificing some of your life to take vengeance on them - and as a spiritcaller it's *especially* meaningful to him because it's basically the foundation that spiritcallers use to bind spirits - and that has its own second-order Karmic effects.) He *really* doesn't want her to realize what a big deal it is to him.
Her strange reactions: From time to time during her career, the forces of darkness would put together illusions, waking or sleeping, either to tempt or to get information. She managed to convince them that tempting her was a lost cause, but they still tried to trick her into telling them things. One of the information bits they were *always* interested in was the combat capabilities of the girl and her team - and the illusions often started out with an appearance that everything was finally well with the world. She has *big* hangups that kick in as soon as anyone asks her what her powers (or the powers of her teammates) are - anyone, anywhere, under any circumstances.
Of course, that's just what's in my head - and that explanation won't be going into the final version. Is there anyone else who suffered a similar bit of whiplash? Should I try to tweak things to make it a bit smoother?