Oh it certainly matters for Athena where her humanly vessel goes, does it not?

[ Oh Hyoga, can Shion keep you? At least you can listen to him ramble without complaining and be content with patpattings -- like the one the old man is giving you right now.

Then simply: ]

No. I have my own answers, and I have asked those same questions to other Saints and many other people. It is good conversation fodder, no?

[ Sets himself back up. He wants to keep the wolf. Gently -- ]

Have you ever thought of a life without the burden of the Cloth?