![]() Her strategy for dealing with her fears is to kill them. ![]() ![]() The Seeker, on the other hand, is afraid of Lacey. Not only that, but they want all humans and aliens to co-exist. ![]() This revelation makes the Seeker an even more interesting foil to Wanda/Melanie. We also learn that, like Wanda and Melanie, Lacey was there the whole time. With her gone, the body's original consciousness returns, and we're in for a surprise: "The Seeker's host body was named Lacey a dainty, soft, feminine name. The humans take care of that problem when Wanda helps them remove the Seeker and blast her back into space. The Seeker is the closest thing the novel has to a bad guy, claiming the trophy when she shoots poor Wes in the head. ![]() The Host blurs all sorts of lines between human and alien, good and evil, so it doesn't really have a concrete antagonist. If the old body-snatching movies were allegories for communism, then the Seeker is the big bad KGB gathering information on the god-fearing capitalists and converting them into evil red commies. They, quite obviously, seek information about others. The Seeker is a title bestowed upon a certain member of the alien race. ![]()
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