"It's holder?" Rat gives a couple of wheezing coughs, which might slow her answer, but once he's gotten a breath again he has more to say. "I don't know much for certain about souls- I've never been too good at religion, just good enough to know how sad that is. But I do know about people. People are very resilient, but we all have our breaking point, too, and we all need hope. Even if the only hope we've got left is that there might be something better after this life is over." He turns a look of fatherly concern on her. "If you're racking up some kind of... damage that's going to destroy whatever waits for us after, that's going to bleed through into your daily life, sooner or later."