@kapricious liked for a starter
“This is certainly new.”
Istus had seen many things. She’d seen all of the past, all of existence and every reality. But she always encountered oddities. Things that seemed like they didn’t belong, things that stood out, unique to their realities. Things like this. Certainly, she knew that it was possible to bind a soul to machinery, but not on this large of a scale, and not thousands of years old, as she could sense.
The scarf representing fate coiled around Istus, before fading into the Celestial Plane, like a colorful serpent. She wasn’t creating more of it currently, though, too occupied with her curiosity surrounding the lion’s essence. Her lifeforce was intriguing, at least to the goddess herself. “I won’t ask how this is possible. You likely don’t have the answer. But I know you can communicate, and I am curious. How long have you been like this?”