[The "electricity" thing earns a raised eyebrow as she tries to figure out how you get the power from a shock spell back into usable form. Probably some magical theory thing she never bothered to study.

But soul gems. Who hasn't heard of soul gems?]

You can argue whether a stag or a bear truly has a soul, I suppose, but the spell captures something.

[She shrugs.]

Now, soul-trapping people...

[It is so dubious.

Aila trails off. She herself has only used a black soul gem a handful of times, on people she wanted to keep from ever weaseling their way back to some semblance of life, but she's never been able to bring herself to use those filled gems.]

It's banned for a reason.