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"Great. In that case, I can imagine a method— which would be extraordinarily difficult for a person, by the way, too complex— but for a worm, assuming you mean a literal worm, it could be done. In theory. Nobody's making a practice of this. But in theory, you could locate a host organism— another worm, ideally, but even something else— locate a host, and rip out or alter their strings, overwrite them with the <span class="mu-i">focused concept</span> of your worm— so that they would have in effect no choice but to be it totally. And then you would have your worm. Understood?"
That sounds kind of scarier than you imagined, but Annie deserves you trying as hard as you can. "I guess... but how would that happen? Exactly?"
"I don't know," Henry says.
"Oh."
"At the moment I'm spitballing. But that's the core concept, seen in other workings, if not in this permutation. I'd need some actual time to think on it if you wanted a step-by-step."
"I want a step-by-step," you say firmly.
"Then I will have to write you. If Garvin delivers a letter, will you accept it from him? Or will you, I paraphrase, 'spit in his face and then tear it to shreds and piss on the shreds in front of him.' As he seems to believe will happen."
Now that he says it, you'd dearly like to do the aforementioned. But you want your worm back more. "I <span class="mu-i">guess</span> I'll accept it."
"Great! Then I'll do some thinking." Henry spreads his hands. "Was there anything else?"
>[1] Yes. (Anything else for Henry or the Wyrm cult? Last shot for a while. Write-in.)
>[2] No. You're out of here.
