[Muffet straightens up with a sigh, pulling herself together and letting go of her old grudge in order to explain more clearly:]
I doubt he actually cared much at all about them as a person- what he wanted was their soul. You heard, specifically, that he mentioned setting a bounty on a human soul? I know other worlds don't seem to deal with them as much, but for us souls are a very real and present thing. That's what that little light in front of them was, the one I had caught in my web.
A monster who claims a human soul and takes it for their own can gain incredible power. In theory, a human who claims a monster soul can do the same, but that's so much more difficult that it's never been done. If I'd brought him their soul, he could have used it to escape past the Barrier, the magical seal that trapped our people underneath the mountain.
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[Her voice is quiet, but her tone is bitter.]
Absolutely nothing at all.
[Muffet straightens up with a sigh, pulling herself together and letting go of her old grudge in order to explain more clearly:]
I doubt he actually cared much at all about them as a person- what he wanted was their soul. You heard, specifically, that he mentioned setting a bounty on a human soul? I know other worlds don't seem to deal with them as much, but for us souls are a very real and present thing. That's what that little light in front of them was, the one I had caught in my web.
A monster who claims a human soul and takes it for their own can gain incredible power. In theory, a human who claims a monster soul can do the same, but that's so much more difficult that it's never been done. If I'd brought him their soul, he could have used it to escape past the Barrier, the magical seal that trapped our people underneath the mountain.