Meeting an Ehrban

This crossover's gonna take a bit to explain.

So recently, Forrest directed our attention to his project, the Chronicles of Quelouva. It's all summaries for now, but there's still a lot of fascinating stuff in there; I recommend checking it out.

The alien lady here is an Ehrban, the first species we're introduced to. It's learned early on that every Ehrban has a sort of second voice in their head--an 'inherited personality', the combined memories and traits of their 'maternal' ancestor ('maternal' in quotes given the ways reproduction can work with the Ehrban), that most people aren't consciously aware of.

Reincarnation isn't quite the same thing, but possibly similar enough to pique the interest of any Ehrban who studies psychology. Now if only it wasn't such a touchy subject for Durandal…