I always get excited when I see a comment of yours. I've said it before, but it's worth repeating: I love the way you think, it is familiar, like seeing someone saying the things I don't have the words for.
When Tucker had his first hallucination I thought "he fused with the people who created the Mæron or the dead minds of the people who worked on it got absorbed by it and then installed on Tucker's mind when he got abducted"