Suddenly, memories flood back. Memories locked away for eons. Memories of your life before, and of the lives you had lived since.

You know now where man got his legends of angels, demons, reincarnation, and eternal life. You remember acts of terrible destruction, and unconditional love. Moments of bravery, moments of terror, and ages on nothing when the body you inhabited died and you searched for a new one to inhabit.

But how did you know where to find us? you ask her.

We didn’t. She looks at you.Many of us, once we figured out where you had gone, travelled to the human world to seek you out. Sadly, I am the only one to return.

What happened to the rest?

The human mind is not like ours. It is primitive, though that is changing, and harbours dark impulses we have little or no experience with. We were driven mad, and the hosts we lived in while we searched succumbed to the same fate. After a time, they could not escape their hosts, and finally died when the body gave out.

She begins to weep…