After time passes a bit and Rask relaxes from the battle in the Library. He looks around and addresses Ca’armine in a cheerful, clear voice, his hillbilly Aegierain accent exaggerated, but not so much to be a caricature.
“Carrm, you reckon’… Orcs got souls? They go through Hoods Gate too right?”
“Orcs? It has never occurred to me to wonder, mostly because I believed them to be a myth. But since you ask… hm. They live, I imagine, even if it is a cursed life, twisted by evil magic. If they live, they die. If they die, Hood collects them. So yes, I suppose, after a fashion, even non-human abominations have something like a soul.”