"Well, assuming that the program is as blatantly illegal as it looks. If she was being metaphorical about the soul thing then it's more uncertain. If Jinx brings evidence of a major illegal magical weapons program to the council, then that could buy her amnesty from a lot of things."

"Did they literally take your soul out, or were you being poetical?"

She pauses for a long moment, then:

"I remain human, for the most part."

"Question: What's a soul?"

"It's the matrix of mana that makes up your consciousness. Usually your body needs to be intact in order to sustain it, but there's magic out there that can sustain a soul outside one. Thresh's lantern does that, the Summoning ritual does that, most kinds of ressurection do that. That said, messing with souls outside of very carefully limited circumstances is the kind of magic that caused the Shadow Isles to exist." 

"Magic here is so fucking weird."

"Even we don't really understand it that well, much as the Summoner's Council would like you to believe otherwise."

"Can we maybe have that conversation later when I'm not standing on an assassin?"

"Yeah, fair. Okay. What do we do with the problem at hand."

"I think that depends on wether our assassin decides to cooperate."

Ruava looks at their assassin.

The assassin declines to comment.

Audrey steps over and holds her tablet above the assassin, then pauses. 

"... If Jayce can break my security and the cameras are compromised, recording this to my tablet is probably a terrible idea."

"Yeah that sounds like logic."

"... If we're to have evidence, we're going to need to turn our assassin over directly to Jayce. Do you have any way to contact him?"

"There's always 'make some pretty lights'..."

"... I'd bet a large sum of money that Jayce is watching the outside of the building, but that means probably someone or several someones with rifles are too. And going through the halls to get to the outside would be stupid since they have the security cameras. Do you have enough control over the water to cut through walls?"

"I mean, probably, but I can also shape light on the outside of the building from here."

"Oh. That would be convenient, yes." 

She tilts her head. 

"... what to say, though."

"We had an assassin, would Jayce like to come pick them up?"

Audrey smiles a little despite herself. "...prooooobably not a good idea."

"All right, so what do we tell him?"

"Maybe something vague like 'Hi Jayce, we need to talk about Jinx?' I'm really not sure, honestly."

"Or just 'Hi! Guess who needs to talk!'"

"That... might actually work."