Vishali Seshadri

So you are kind of like, oh, yeah.

And in part one, like you don't know what's going on with her, like anything could happen to her.

She'd

doesn't remember who she is or what's going on so it's like you were just kind of expecting the worst with her like I was on edge with her the whole time and I guess at that point I was like I'm ready for anything to happen and her body is completely not her own yeah in that first part yeah but she also doesn't remember who she is it's a very uh out of body experience in fact reading it I found yeah very much and I think it's the the memory stuff for me that feels like it violates body autonomy more than the necromancy stuff I I actually didn't clock that there was a

I agree.

I think maybe it's, for me, Helena just not having her memories was the worst possible thing.

So anything after that was, like, not as intense.

It was creepy and disgusting to me, but she doesn't know who she is.

Like, every, you know, it was, I didn't find it to, like, it wasn't a shock.

It was just, like, this is an awful world and awful things are happening.

And, yeah, I expect everything and anything.

Yeah, I mean, you've got 1,000 pages and you don't have that many characters, so you are stuck with Helena and her thoughts for a very long time, and to be able to do that well for that long is an incredible feat, I reckon, because, you know, she's three-dimensional.

You know, it's enough to keep you interested and compelled and, you know, keep with the story.

So I think...

Sen did a really, really good job with that because, you know, you're honestly just meandering with Helada the whole time trying to figure it out with her.

Yeah, and one of my favourite parts was to start making those connections when you are in the second part with what's happened in the first part.

That kind of just happened and you were like, what's going on?

Why are characters behaving this way?

Blah, blah, blah.

And it makes more sense afterwards.