The Host

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, suicidal ideation, and death by suicide.

While Wanderer and the others were raiding, Wanderer’s Seeker—the one obsessed with tracking her—finally figured out the general location of the camp and used an all-terrain vehicle to approach. Wes and several others went out; in the altercation, she killed Wes but was captured. She is now imprisoned in the same place Wanderer once was. 

Wanderer believes that if she’d skipped this planet or not come to this place, Wes would be alive. Melanie tries to remind her that she would have led the Seeker there even without Wanderer. However, both Wanderer and Melanie know that things are more difficult now that the Seeker has “disappeared”: It could make the other souls suspect that she was right about humans hiding in the desert. 

Jeb kept the Seeker alive because he wanted Wanderer to speak with her. Though frightened, she agrees. The Seeker is being held at the end of the hallway where Wanderer’s former cell is, but she is not in the cell. Rather, she is allowed to pace the end of the hallway. This bothers Wanderer and Melanie, as the Seeker is being treated better than they were.