"Consumed" can also refer to something eaten, or absorbed, and in that case the consumer can be very changed indeed...
And that made me think of Ursula LeGuin's The Tombs of Atuan, with Arha, the 'Eaten One', the girl who is offered to the old gods, for them to eat her soul so she becomes their priestess, their vessel.
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Date: 2008-11-11 02:24 am (UTC)And that made me think of Ursula LeGuin's The Tombs of Atuan, with Arha, the 'Eaten One', the girl who is offered to the old gods, for them to eat her soul so she becomes their priestess, their vessel.