How is a soul fragment exchange different from the cordings that take place, say, between a perpetrator and victim? What does each of these phenomena do, mechanistically?

Both create a karmic tie between a perpetrator and a victim. The cordings are an energetic interplay that begins spontaneously with an encounter and then, depending on the nature of how it goes, it will grow in overall intensity or diminish and perhaps dissolve spontaneously if there was little that took place of any great significance and then no further interactions happen. This is a way one clears away old business and clutter that would otherwise accumulate indefinitely to no good purpose. The soul fragments are a kind of history and, as such, they are somewhat like a diary kept of what transpired between individuals. The pages of the diary contain the information about who was present, who did what to whom, and what happened as a result from the perspective of the being. So it is the person’s story and will be biased accordingly by the personal perspective of the experiencer. It is not an objective assessment that can weigh all the energies dispassionately and assign an overall meaning and a kind of assessment as to how much was positive, how much was negative affecting all parties, and to what extent it was a success or failure with respect to expectations, and so on. The fragments are exchanged at the culmination of an important event, a trauma often, that has a story leading to a climax. The end result in the form of a wounding persists because the story will be on file in the akashic record as unsatisfied, unconcluded, so it is like a cliffhanger because the final outcome, the final consequence for the protagonist, has not been decided yet. There is unfinished business and this is what the Law of Karma will analyze and work to bring back around to get the parties together again. In a sense, the restoration of missing fragments and the return of extra fragments is a kind of restitution akin to an act of forgiveness such that you are giving back the evidence of the crime to the perpetrator or returning the spoils of war, the trophy resulting from an injury through having power over another, back to the victim to help reconstitute them and restore them and surrender that power that was wielded and return the energy taken away from the victim in the doing. In this way, it is like filling in a hole that was created by robbing the victim of their state of completion and this is putting back a puzzle piece that makes them whole again, at least with respect to the incident of trauma giving rise to the soul fragmentation. Cordings are a dynamic continual energetic interconnection, so this promotes an ongoing interplay of energy. It not only ties people together with a kind of bonding, it keeps them in one another’s awareness and the sensing of energy of particular frequencies will be a reminder that they are tied to someone who represents trouble for them, whether as victim or perpetrator, and so are a source of ongoing stress, and also this is a source of a growing discord or friction people feel and may reach a point where they have to do something about it. If the person they are corded to is in their sphere of influence, this is when the sparks may start to fly and old animosities will come to the surface and there will be a blowup of some kind leading to a squabble, or some kind of argument, or worse. Such conduct and experiences will generate energy and the energy is exchanged via the cordings to go directly to the person, so it promotes a very active interplay of energetic communication, for better or worse. When people are at odds and do not like one another, the cordings that form can be a quite destructive influence and lead to serious trouble and in some cases will trigger violent behavior in people so inclined. So the difference here is more one of being quite dynamic and ever‑changing. The fires can be dampened, or fanned into new flames that may demand taking strong action and can become a force of their own, propelling people into all kinds of difficult encounters they may regret later, but the scene is set and the struggle begins with the energy flowing through the cordings which may have been created in other lifetimes and still persist.