It means he's looked at the thing inside his... friend, [ there is a whole story behind the weird intonation on 'friend' please don't ask, ] and seen that it's a ghost. His purview.
[ A ghost that Arthur hates, if anything, even more than he hates the one controlling Smith. Even though Bash chose not to, even though Arthur's definitely outmatched, even though there's an innocent man who might be conscious and who'd die too, Arthur's having to really push down the impulse to go out and murder a fucking bard today. ]
He can't pull them out-- o-of course, that would, that would be too easy. Only detect them. Useless fucking god if you ask me.
[ He doesn't mean that, but he says it in anger and grief and frustration anyway. ]
[ ooc note that there's no elegant way to work into the narration, but lmfao the timeline of this thread. please pretend I didn't start out thinking that this would happen before arthur found out crichton was dead. this is definitely happening after that. ]
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[ A ghost that Arthur hates, if anything, even more than he hates the one controlling Smith. Even though Bash chose not to, even though Arthur's definitely outmatched, even though there's an innocent man who might be conscious and who'd die too, Arthur's having to really push down the impulse to go out and murder a fucking bard today. ]
He can't pull them out-- o-of course, that would, that would be too easy. Only detect them. Useless fucking god if you ask me.
[ He doesn't mean that, but he says it in anger and grief and frustration anyway. ]
[ ooc note that there's no elegant way to work into the narration, but lmfao the timeline of this thread. please pretend I didn't start out thinking that this would happen before arthur found out crichton was dead. this is definitely happening after that. ]