"On our home planet, The Origin, we can survive outside our host bodies, but that's the only place. Anywhere else, we have minutes only."

I felt her loss again, so strongly, my eyes actually teared up. I blinked them away. "I wouldn't call her willing, and I wouldn't call the way she threw her memories at me sharing, but I have had a more symbiotic relationship with a host body. Melanie." Saying her name, the tears fell.