Being able to see ghosts seems like a cool ability at first. Some people use their powers to perform excorcisms or help troubled souls find peace. The more selfish of us use their invisible friends for personal gain.
The problem with being able to access ghosts, however, is that the ghosts can access you, too. A pretty girl with a sixth sense is just nothing more than a portal for a departed pervert to return to life with all of his heart’s desires at his fingertips.
Asenya, like most children, thought she was too smart to let a ghost take over her body. She pretended she wasn’t able to see specters, never acknowledging their presence. She didn’t tell her friends, her parents or a soul that she had the gift, but that wasn’t enough. The disembodied souls took one look at her and knew. The young girl went to sleep one night, never suspecting she was vulnerable, and the next time she opened her eyes, she was lying on the floor of a church, with a holy man standing over her. Asenya was almost 30 years old.
Her body had been stolen in her sleep as a child, and her mind was supressed for 20 years, while the ghost used her body to experience life again- High school, college, a serious long-term relationship and even a career. In the blink of an eye, Asenya’s entire life was lived out for her, and only a foolish mistake on her invader’s part returned it to her. No one even suspected that the person claiming to be Asenya was someone else. In fact, the Asenya they knew was now gone, replaced with the mind of a child, both horrified and thrilled to have been thrust into full adulthood.