the voice that can only borrow yours
a wraith had no out-loud voice of its own, and had to use somebody's like internal brain-voice if it wanted to try to communicate something, which was why thoughts and insights that were coming from some wraith always just sound like your own thoughts, from inside your own head
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The wraith's central limitation is the theme's darkest image of a channel: the dead have no voice of their own and can only speak through the listener's own inner voice, so anything they manage to transmit is indistinguishable from the listener's own thoughts. Contact is possible, but only by dissolving into the other mind — the message arrives, if it arrives, wearing your voice, never the sender's. It is communication achieved at the price of never being able to tell it apart from talking to yourself. [sweep · shared-ground ghosts-wraiths]