“… that if one can adequately mimic the signature character of the deadly parasite that generally infects and co-opts the cogniscium… that this act has the peculiar property of revealing the monster to the infected… with the result that it may endow them with the capacity to eject it.

Thus, one who had long been a prisoner of a thing worse, really, than a monster — a parasite that drives (because it becomes) the mind and distorts one’s inner seeing… is either mastered and transformed into a powerful ally, or evicted. In either case, the rarest of wonders.”

— a conversation overhea(r)d