Chapter 11:
"Who would live out here? We souls live for society. Why did I no longer belong to the society of souls? Why did I feel like I didn't...like I didn't want to belong? Had I really been a part of the community that was meant to be my own, or was that the reason behind my long line of lives lived in transience?...Had this planet changed me, or revealed me for what I already was?...Who was I?" Because of Melanie's memories, Wanderer cares so much for Jared and Jamie. She now wants to do everything she can to protect them from people like the Seeker. At this point she is having a sort of identity crisis. She has spent time in so many hosts. Has she finally found her home? I just really love Wanderer right now. She is trying to figure out who she is, which is something everyone goes through. She is being human.
Chapter 12:
"Well, I think that maybe...you're dying to be human. After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer." This fits in with what I was just talking about. Melanie thinks that Wanderer is trying to be human.
"There's a reason we call it the final death...We have so many lives. Anything more would be...too much to expect. We die a little death every time we leave a host. We live again in another. When I die here, that will be the end." Wanderer and Melanie are talking the "afterlife". Wanderer explains that the Souls don't believe in it. Wanderer knows that if she died now, this would be her last body, her last host. No one really knows what happens after you die. Heaven, Hell, Nirvana, Reincarnation. It's a mystery.
---Amelia
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