"Shonsu isn't completely gone, no." Wallie shook his head. "What the gods wanted was a swordsman who thought like an engineer, I guess. I have Shonsu's knowledge, his skills. Not his memories, not his brain, but I'm as good with a sword as he was."

The main difference there being that he was a lot less inclined to use the sword than Shonsu had ever been, and that was fine.

Wallie leaned back in his seat, trying to think how to word it. "I've also got a few of his emotions rattling around in my head. His temper, particularly. He wasn't exactly a very nice person." Frankly, a murderer and a rapist.