Actually I think that was one of the things I liked most about the story - that she DIDN'T figure it out until the end. I kept shouting "Why don't you get it?" but I think I understand why Seanan/Mira kept her in the dark.
At some level, discovering that Sal's identity is actually that of a nascent parasite would be world shattering. Even though she's been given lots of clues about it (her negative reactions to anti-parasitic drugs for example), she's going to reject any ideas that might lead her to the fact that her identity is really tied to the worm living in her stomach and not the body in which she lives. So denial is absolutely the right reaction for Sal until she's presented with incontrovertible evidence that she's really a worm in a person's body.
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Date: 2013-11-11 07:58 pm (UTC)At some level, discovering that Sal's identity is actually that of a nascent parasite would be world shattering. Even though she's been given lots of clues about it (her negative reactions to anti-parasitic drugs for example), she's going to reject any ideas that might lead her to the fact that her identity is really tied to the worm living in her stomach and not the body in which she lives. So denial is absolutely the right reaction for Sal until she's presented with incontrovertible evidence that she's really a worm in a person's body.