Vanessa vs revenant

"Can't you divorce yourself from the situation?" Errol said. "Just focus on the consoling fact that you are not actually in the grove, that you're just using someone else as a puppet."


"You'd have to sample the fear to understand," she said. "It is overwhelming and irrational. It left me utterly paralyzed both times. There is no room for creating intellectual distance. All I intended to do when I was inhabiting Tanu was get a look at the creature and run away, but I lost all bodily control. It poses quite a problem."


Chapter 17