"No! No, no, no," Shadow said, pointing a finger in Clef's face. "It wasn't an attack, it wasn't going to Sleep, it wasn't any of that. It was something about YA. Ya broke down and then ya were fading entirely and it wasn't any Bending stuff because I can't break Ascended stuff like that."

He gets in Clef's face. "So I want ya to think of YER world and yer world only. What could happen to a person to make their soul disappear."