Her consciousness resists the takeover of her mind and her body. What is not normal is that as the days progress, Wanderer discovers that Melanie has not gone away as she should have done. Wanderer awakes to Melanie's memory of the violence of her attempt to evade the Seekers. Peace and harmony reigns as the unity of souls, (individuals, not a conglomeration like the Borg) go about their unadventurous lives, all focussed on the greater good.Īs we join Wanderer in her takeover of Melanie's body, however, we see that there may still be a little resistance out there somewhere. Sirens are now only heard in the event of a fire or an accident. All work, and all take what they need from the fruit of those labours. In a sense to save that species even, although they would do so by changing them irreparably. They have come to save this planet from the violence and hatred and greed of its dominant species. Although the Souls would argue it never was a battle. In keeping with the template, for there to be a story either the battle must only just be beginning – or the invaders must believe they have won. Our greatest nightmares in respect of alien invasions revolve around those where we will not be able to tell the aliens from our own (except maybe for that fourth finger, or the strange heartbeat, or the oddly reflective eyes). The Souls took over by sheer force of numbers, and by stealth. If there had been a war, humanity had scarcely noticed it. As we join him to witness the insertion of the Soul known as Wanderer into her eighth incarnation – her first as a human, having previously been a bat, a flower, a bear, a spider, a See Weed – most of the human bodies remaining on planet earth have been occupied. The healer Fords Deep Waters is a Soul, so by nature he was all things good: compassionate, patient, honest, virtuous and full of love… However, because Fords Deep Waters lived inside a human body, irritation was sometimes inescapable.įords is not the only Soul living inside a human body. When one of her own kind starts to become over-intrusive in her life she flees, and enters a world she could never have imagined, no matter what she'd learned in her previous incarnations. She finds herself struggling with the emotions and passions of the human mind that should no longer exist. Summary: When the Soul Wanderer is inserted into Melanie's captured body, all does not go according to plan.

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