"The differences in those definitions in different parts of existence might matter." Curufin is very definite about that.
He looks at the hand.
"I have the theory I had in the months after I arrived. The train has some means of teleporting people out of their own worlds and onto the Void platform every month. Maybe it travels near each of the worlds of the new people in fast succession and latches onto them and whisks them across the Void and onto the platform. It takes their whole physical beings, and so they really are gone from their own worlds. I haven't got a scientific explanation for the teleportation part, but then, I don't suppose I really need one."
He glances at the hand again. "Do you want my explanation for why an Elf can't be separated from his or her body? Or at least, I can't. Or do you already credit that there's a reason for that?"
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He looks at the hand.
"I have the theory I had in the months after I arrived. The train has some means of teleporting people out of their own worlds and onto the Void platform every month. Maybe it travels near each of the worlds of the new people in fast succession and latches onto them and whisks them across the Void and onto the platform. It takes their whole physical beings, and so they really are gone from their own worlds. I haven't got a scientific explanation for the teleportation part, but then, I don't suppose I really need one."
He glances at the hand again. "Do you want my explanation for why an Elf can't be separated from his or her body? Or at least, I can't. Or do you already credit that there's a reason for that?"