Nickname: Wanda
Age: Approximately a thousand years old
Status: Soul
Appearance: A luminous, silvery, “living ribbon” entity
History: Wanderer is the invading soul that inhabits Melanie Stryder’s body. She received her name due to the number of planets she has lived in, having never settled on one she truly liked. She is later nicknamed “Wanda” by Mel’s eccentric Uncle Jeb. Like all souls, she is naturally inclined to do good and is disgusted by violence. She feels incredibly guilty about the unrest her presence causes amongst Melanie’s loved ones, and throughout the book she puts others before herself. She feels an initial affection for Jared, Melanie’s lover, and Jamie, Mel’s little brother, due to the memories she was fed by her host, and eventually develops her own relationship with both of them. She also grows to love her host, Mel, like a sister, and, when Mel appears to have disappeared from the body they both inhabit, is incredibly upset by her apparent disappearance. She eventually forces Mel to reawaken and promises to give her back the control of her body. She falls in love with Ian O’Shea and feels guilty that she was unable to reciprocate his feelings earlier. Wanderer inhabits Melanie Stryder, hence she bears all of Mel’s physical characteristics. She once undertook the name Glass Spires when she went out to get some medication for Jamie who was sick. Later in the book she is implanted in the body of another girl, who is petite and delicate with golden hair, freckled skin, silver eyes, and a dimple in her chin, formerly named Pet. In that body she cannot do much for herself, in the book saying she was always given the easiest jobs but half the time having the work pulled out of her hands anyway. She can’t carry her own cot either, when she tried to, she has to have Ian carry it. She ends up with Ian as the book closes.
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