"Ah. Then you are also working to cure Erica? We should compare our methods, and cover every possible approach." She turned back to Tophat.
"Ah, so you said that the curse first affects the body, and then the soul? Well, I have been focusing on trying to preserve her soul. What if we could prepare a decoy of sorts?" She shifted the tomes to one arm and with the other, she drew a deep purple soul gem, eerily similar to the one that had been corrupted by Regulus, from a pocket in her skirt.
"I have a soul already trapped in this gem. What if we were to transfer it into Erica's body and bind it in place as you have done with others before? Then we would use some of the alteration magic described in these tomes to change the new soul so that it closely resembles Erica's own. If you could draw out Erica's soul just before the death of her body and store it in another gem, then the curse may affect the replacement soul, leaving Erica's untouched!"