My soul's bound to the Ring, so that might be the reason why I can't take back mine. But like I said... I've never known an Item user try to take their soul fragments back. Generally they just assume it can't be done and ignore the possibility.

So I've got no clue if it's even doable or not. And the only person that might know isn't here.

[Not that I'd even ask him, he thinks, a little coldly. Even if he hadn't killed Shadi once already, they'd never gotten along. He'd kill him again if it were possible. Over... and over... His shoulders shake a little with suppressed laughter at the thought.]

Malik'll have to be my test subject on that front, it seems. And if it works, once we're out of here, he can track down the rest of them as well.