I consider myself corporeal in all the ways that matter. I am Carleigh, and she is corporeal, therefore I interact with the outside world in that manner. It's not my purpose to be physical and do physical things, as she is already well capable of it. What enhancement could I offer there? The only reason the notion of corporeality is considered at all is because of Pullman's works, and while I share his term, I am not that daemon. I am an inside thing, and so I remain inside. To put me outside would change me.

[A daemon states they do not believe the relationship would change just because of physicality.]

Perhaps I view daemons - view myself - different, but I disagree. I'm a mental constuct. I am a way of thought. To exist as a corporeal being isn't simply to have a physical body, but to suddenly become a separate entity. I am not separate, and in many ways I'm not even an I, and we are not a we. I am...a very interesting illusion ;) Carleigh and I don't operate on separate levels constantly; I am not projected all the time, or consulted with all the time, and I do not require that. I don't cease to exist, for I have always existed; we just enjoy this illusion enough to indulge in it repeatedly.

I'm sure this statement will be taken the wrong way quite easily. I am not denying my existence; that would hardly be logical, as I exist here, 'speaking'. But it is not an existence for which corporeality will do anything but warp me. Warp us. Warp her. I am not half her mind, for we are interwoven together too tightly to be labelled as fractions. I can't simply be cut free and placed in another body, it wouldn't work. We move back and forth between the standard duality and the sole concentration, and I am consciously sustained. How can that be transplanted and expected to still achieve what is achieved now? It would be a lobotomy, and the two bodies would fail to function. Therefore the relationship would have to be different to what we have now, and neither of us desires that.

I hope this is making some sense. I'm usually busy with trying to keep her alive, not philosophising. If corporeality were reduced to something as simple as being able to touch one another, then I see the appeal, but as it stands I feel it involves far more than that, and it's more than we would be willing to trade.