soulping | Amalthea / Barghest / Lethe.

[ And, with a start, you're somewhere else: A small, whitewashed room with another tinny woman's voice rattling off the walls. ]

Painful in either case. A consequence, or a loss of something important which is its own form of pain, would be my guess on the possibilities.

Hm...I wonder if we could ask what would happen if we said no? Do you think that would be allowed?

... It's never not worth a try.

But I wouldn't come to expect anything more than a vague non-answer.