Excerpt from an interview between News Reporter Emily Martes and Dr. Navin Schultheiss, Ph.D.

October 2, 2113

Martes: So, you claim that you have discovered not only the existence of souls inside us, but also how to harness them and store them?

Schultheiss: That's right.

Martes: And... how did you come to this conclusion, exactly?

Schultheiss: The existence of souls was the easy part, and I'm sure that at this point, most people would already be aware of the notion. After all, our conscious and conscience has to come from somewhere, and no chemical compounds or nerve reactions could ever come close to causing, say, two different people to be put in identical situations and come out with different opinions. Something else has to be operating in us that works around that stuff.

Martes: Interesting. And I'm assuming that "something else" would be the soul?

Schultheiss nods.

Martes: But how did you discover how to ever store them, as if it were a physical thing? I imagine that would've taken much more trial and error.

Schultheiss: Several years, in fact. This may come off as unbelievable at first, but the truth is that quite simply, we just found it. There's really no other way to describe it.

Martes: Oh really?

Schultheiss: It would be hard to explain. We spent years combing through human anatomy, trying to discover what was the secret to finding the soul. We pitted patients - willing volunteers, if you were wondering - with different circumstances and observed how it all worked out. And in the end, it just somehow happened. We pieced together the stats, took a few rough guesses, and it finally worked out.

Martes nods.

Martes: Can you tell us more about this soul that you found?

Schultheiss: It's quite strange, actually. When freed from the vessel, the soul took on the form of a visible physical shape, sorta resembling a wisp. The most interesting thing for us was that during the first few days after we extracted the soul, we were watching it like it was a bomb that could go off at any time.

Martes: Oh?

Schultheiss: After all, we weren't sure what the soul would do, freed. Did it still have a conscious? In the end, we had settled with the conclusion that when freed, it was in a vegetative state, as if waiting to go into a new host.

Martes: Interesting... and where did you go from there?

Schultheiss: Well, I guess you could say we did what the soul wanted. We tried planting it into an already-dying patient, seeing what would happen. To be honest, we didn't expect much, but what did happen shocked us. You see, the patient was supposed to die in less than a week. He lasted for the next month.

Martes: And then died?

Schultheiss nods and frowns.

Schultheiss: But nevertheless, it was a medical breakthrough. Since then, we began to experiment with other souls, eventually being able to replicate thoughts, emotions, and sensory. By the end of a few more months, almost all tests were successful.

Martes seems slightly discomforted.

Martes: So you found the... knack to harnessing souls?

Schultheiss: Harnessing, containing, and reusing them. And the best part - forgive me if this comes off slightly macabre - is that when the host of someone who has used another soul other than his dies, it's more souls for us to work with. It's like a never-ending cycle of resources.

Martes: So, ah... now what are you planning to do with this breakthrough?

Schultheiss: What anybody would logically do. Put the souls to some good use - making profit, helping others. Such a breakthrough could possibly alter the entire world...