- While the protagonist's life took at turn for the worse after he spent years possessed by a Yithian, with his wife divorcing him and his eldest son and young daughter distancing themselves, his second son Wingate remained by his side. He spent all that time certain his father would return and, when he did, stuck by him to help him get his life back on track.
- There's mention of the protagonist encountering the mind of a human in a Yith body who is from the 2500s, meaning that despite the Crapsack World Lovecraft built in his work, humanity survives, in some form, up to that time.
- The fact that the Yithians are rather welcoming of those who they have stolen the bodies of. They're cared for until the five-year period ends, get to interact with others in the same situation, and over time, the protagonist comes to find the world he's been shunted into as not terrifying, but beautiful.
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