[ That sort of answer gets a small smile from Allen, soft and a little mysterious. Ah. He's someone with a really good heart. It's an important realization, a rare sense of being kindred, that he holds onto in his heart and tucks away for now. ]

I think it'd be better than having you shovel snow, don't you think?

[ a beat ]

--even if we'll both still probably have to shovel it. [ ehe ]

We can try it with something small... a little beast that was an animal maybe, that isn't so dangerous. And I can be there to purify it too if anything goes wrong. [ Better to play it safe. It isn't their own lives that hang in the balance after all, but that of who or whatever they're trying to save as well. ]

How exactly is it that you exorcise something normally...?