I sat on the floor in the corner and reached out to the Soul of the Librarian. First, I’ve left it with less than a tenth of his capacity, then took away a half of that, then reached out to him. A very angry voice cursed me and then again and again. I’ve let him talk and then interrupted, “Listen, let’s assume, you got me really upset and instead of running away in tears, I just started modifying your memories. Every one where you’re making someone suffer in your office will be reversed – you will remember it from the point of view of the victim. You have MANY of those I and can change them really quickly. Oh don’t start again – I’ll throw in your Drows’ memories too. Every one where they acted on your orders only this time, again, you’ll be running through the Forest and hiding in the rocks and then dying in a way you’ve requested. Now that I got your attention – here’s the situation with the newcomers. I don’t want to keep them and I don’t want an all-out war with their World. I can send them back and the Bosses would have to be silent about their own Yellow Gas. In fact the whole incident would come down to the door malfunction – the kids would be forced to shut up about the Gas. That would leave the kids as Zombies – probably never growing up – and leaves the World Bosses to plot their next casus belli or just attack unprovoked. Your ideas – I’m listening”

After a long silence, I heard “How stupid are you to think that a body won’t grow with a Necro-Soul? Souls just reside in the Bodies, growing old is a biological process that’s not connected to the Soul. If you swap two souls, the bodies would still go on as before. Hehehe so stupid.” I sighed, “This is what I told you before. You think yourself Infallible – just because you thought of something, it must be True. You’re wrong. With a regular soul your assumption is right – I can swap souls, and bodies will exist like nothing happened. A Necro-Soul freezes the Body in this world. We have no heartbeat and your own Artifacts didn’t detect me. Yes, that’s why. I’ve had taken damage that would've killed a regular Human and yet my Necro-Doctor fixed me with a kiss and a spell. Yes, it felt great to be cared for and loved. You should’ve tried it. But you wouldn’t and now you never will. What, you didn’t expect I can get to you the same way? See, you know it and I know it – we are very much alike. Only it gives you hope that I’ll set you free and it terrifies me. So, a Necro-Soul in those kids lets them come back to my World but does nothing to prevent the War. I can try to talk to their parents through them, I can maybe even spur those parents to get another High Hearing to explain to the Panel that their War will blow in their face but the problem is, we know it won’t work. The Bosses get rich from the Genetic Engineering and use the War to prevent themselves from being criticized. After all, how can you complain about shortages if we’re in a War! So. Your ideas would be appreciated.”

He started muttering, “So you’re saying the Soul isn’t just Energy and as such can be Positive and Negative effectively acting like a proton and antiproton and when they collide…” I interrupted, “stay on-topic. This is a Magical World – everything you’ve read about subatomic particles at home, doesn’t apply. Moreover there’s a possibility the books in your library are wrong as the Magic World can self-modify. The books can get outdated or be deliberately sabotaged. I need your Strategic Ideas – leave the execution to the Engineers.” He was silent for a bit and then said, “Engineer. That’s what you are. You’re looking for a quick and solid fix at the lowest cost. You will never Rule the World. You don’t have the span of the imagination. To go to the Panel. Hehehehehe… To convince them to change their ways… Hehehehehe … Every change needs an overseer, and you’re too much an EngineEEEEEEEer to go in and fix the problem once a for all. Oh, there is a solution… So simple… If I had your powers I’d control every World in this simulation. Every single one. And they’d all bow down to me and kill each other for a chance to stand next to me. Just for a moment. For that glorious moment. But now, I’m not telling you and the neighboring World will suffer with all of their resources thrown at Dragon-making and then it will ruin them but the Bosses will live out their lives in luxury. And since you, for some reason, care about that filth, you’ll suffer too. I won’t tell you a simple solution. Never… Hehehehehe.”