agency is a matter of perspective, and were you to ask those books, they would claim the dozing writer is the one who has been chosen. They picked her, and while she is dozing, they are hard at work, colonizing her neural networks, that dark netherworld tucked away in the subconscious she calls her imagination. There, they engage in their own form of conjoining, merging their DNA with her memory and experience, and bringing another of ourselves into being.
