"To your question about kidnapped individuals: Part of the work of the Ministry is to monitor the health and safety of those within the void, and those that use it. So yes, we do investigate and confirm cases. There are public articles. I can include them in a larger file, and what you make of them will be up to you. If you read them. View them."
So to answer that first part. But they allowed Curufin to speak fully, waiting until he was done to do so themselves.
"To your next point: Can you confirm that the void you were in is the same Void used now for travel? There are many voids - there are many everything. That you were wandering within a void doesn't mean you were wandering inside this Void, the one that we work with. You ended up on the platform - the liminal station - shows that you have been tethered, but not that you have been brought into this Void completely. Becoming re-embodied - many beings can do this. Nothing unusual. Though, it is unusual - uncommon - for certain types of individuals to be tethered by the means available when they are in certain conditions. A large mess. Usually, most times, this is for beings in a state of 'death' - which itself is more broad than it should be. There are rules that cannot be crossed. Safely, anyway.
"What could be happening to you now, is unknown. But the state of being tethered, for the spirit to remember the body - this is how tethering works in this Void, in a sense. This form of yours here-" They gesture a hand, palm facing upward, to Curufin, "--this as much a physical body as any other that is physical, yes. Calling the shell what is left behind - the form, one's 'earthly being', in some cultures, a 'physical anchor', is simply an easier term. It is a representation. But, there can still be something left behind. Usually. We won't know the problems being faced by those tethered to the Voidtrecker Express without being able to analyse and conduct checks."
They finally lower their hand.
"The issue becomes, what happens next when the tether is severed. Is there anything left of you where you were picked up? Can you survive being disconnected from the voidcraft. Will you split, ruined. The capabilities of your being doesn't mean you will be fine. If you wish to stay in the void, then that's well and fine, for you. Though, even people who are trapped in the void need to have check-ups."
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So to answer that first part. But they allowed Curufin to speak fully, waiting until he was done to do so themselves.
"To your next point: Can you confirm that the void you were in is the same Void used now for travel? There are many voids - there are many everything. That you were wandering within a void doesn't mean you were wandering inside this Void, the one that we work with. You ended up on the platform - the liminal station - shows that you have been tethered, but not that you have been brought into this Void completely. Becoming re-embodied - many beings can do this. Nothing unusual. Though, it is unusual - uncommon - for certain types of individuals to be tethered by the means available when they are in certain conditions. A large mess. Usually, most times, this is for beings in a state of 'death' - which itself is more broad than it should be. There are rules that cannot be crossed. Safely, anyway.
"What could be happening to you now, is unknown. But the state of being tethered, for the spirit to remember the body - this is how tethering works in this Void, in a sense. This form of yours here-" They gesture a hand, palm facing upward, to Curufin, "--this as much a physical body as any other that is physical, yes. Calling the shell what is left behind - the form, one's 'earthly being', in some cultures, a 'physical anchor', is simply an easier term. It is a representation. But, there can still be something left behind. Usually. We won't know the problems being faced by those tethered to the Voidtrecker Express without being able to analyse and conduct checks."
They finally lower their hand.
"The issue becomes, what happens next when the tether is severed. Is there anything left of you where you were picked up? Can you survive being disconnected from the voidcraft. Will you split, ruined. The capabilities of your being doesn't mean you will be fine. If you wish to stay in the void, then that's well and fine, for you. Though, even people who are trapped in the void need to have check-ups."