I do not even know if there is such a thing as spirit.

Our god was Fate; Bastin's god is a spirit, and I think yours also." "Yes." "Therefore, I wish you and Bastin to teach me of your god, as does Oro, my father.

I want--oh! so much, Humphrey, to learn whether we live after death." "You!" I exclaimed.

"You who, according to the story, have slept for two hundred and fifty thousand years! You, who have, unless I mistake, hinted that during that sleep you may have lived in other shapes! Do you doubt whether we can live after death ?" "Yes.

Sleep induced by secret arts is not death, and during that sleep the I within might wander and inhabit other shapes, because it is forbidden to be idle.