[Toby also considers that it could be like his mother is a silent host - the ideal host, the broken host, who no longer thinks or struggles - and Steven the Yeerk, using the skills and talents she no longer has the ability or the faculties for, but that's if anything even more horrible and she's glad she didn't say it.]

Yes, there is that. I could tell a more unfortunate story too, but - yes. It's healthier being surrounded by people who understand how dying and having children works. Our parents and ancestors live on in us, but - more in the poetic sense, I have to think.

Even when someone is gone they leave an imprint. Has it been hard for you?