To her let us garlands bringBy offering up the blood of a lamb, Silvia, the protagonist of "Upon the Dull Earth," is able to summon creatures she identifies as angels.

Unable to control their power, the angel-like giants burn Silvia's body and leave only "a brittle burned-out husk".

The girl now lives in the realm of the angel-like creatures, but she wants to come back and she explains that they made a mistake when they took her away.

Besides, Silvia explains that in order to come back she needs "some shape to enter" because there are no "material forms" in the higher continuum.

The girl has assumed the role of a revenant who invades the body and mind of any living person and spreads like a virus, a curse.