*tilts his head, regarding Jei curiously, he wishes he knew what it was that the kid was picking up on so he could explain it better, but he has a few ideas*

... Are you so sure Animals don't have souls? *he asks with gentle seemingly idle curiosity, he doesn't actually care, or even hav much of an opinion on it, but it's usually considered a 'delicate' question* After all, back to 'what is a soul', that they should lack one...
*slight smile, very quiet laugh* And me and Piper are different... I wish she wasn't, but not much can be done about the past... Anyway, being neither fully human or quite just 'animal', that leaves us in a precarious balance of sorts... Having souls, but doing the things one has to in order to survive... Makes us perhaps more, perhaps less than your average human would lead you to believe. But I'm not even sure there was a questrion in there about that...

*slight grin* I suppose Morality is like purpose... Though it is also very different, Morality merely tells you things, more like instinct, what is 'right', what is 'wrong', things like that... Purpose is a bit more than mere instinct.