They're still kind of stuck on it even being a soul, but they've had enough time to get used to the idea of it being in the lantern. It's not like they'd remotely considered souls or energy or anything as HYDRA's assassin-- it was just one more thing in the long list of scary things, at the time, and they'd gotten accustomed to it along with having to make decisions for themselves and actually talking.

"Maybe. I don't know a ton about magic, to be honest," they allow, shrugging the lantern strap back over their shoulder so it hangs behind them. "Or, I guess, about the lanterns really. I never did go into the lab where they were made."