[It's hard for Manolo to compare the panic of drowning to the finality of death. They're two separate things in his mind, and he can't think of a scenario where someone would want to leave the Land of the Remembered for no good reason at all.
On the other hand, maybe these souls were forgotten or cursed somehow. That, at least, might explain why they're so desperate to live that they're willing to destroy other people to get their way. Not that it justifies hurting others, nothing justifies that, but it would at least explain why someone could do something so terrible.
He's not about to argue that point, though, least of all with someone whose family has been working with the dead for a thousand years, so he lets it rest for now.
In any case, it sounds like death works a little differently here than it does there. Can something as universal as death really be that different in each world? Manolo can't quite wrap his mind around that.
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Date: 2015-10-07 08:50 pm (UTC)On the other hand, maybe these souls were forgotten or cursed somehow. That, at least, might explain why they're so desperate to live that they're willing to destroy other people to get their way. Not that it justifies hurting others, nothing justifies that, but it would at least explain why someone could do something so terrible.
He's not about to argue that point, though, least of all with someone whose family has been working with the dead for a thousand years, so he lets it rest for now.
In any case, it sounds like death works a little differently here than it does there. Can something as universal as death really be that different in each world? Manolo can't quite wrap his mind around that.
Still, something she says catches his attention.]
How can you tell if an imPort is dead?