I see. So your singing can do that kind of thing.

[ she says this with just a matter-of-fact tone, no judgment apparent ]

But you ended up in the hospital afterward. Actually taking that energy, it wasn't exactly your doing. That thing forced them inside you, and after that everything went wrong, like there was an infection. Is that--

[ she hesitates to call it a monster, remembering that he had asked it to stay at the end. ]

--creature somehow tied to you?