Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140111153519/@comment-6986530-20140113033933

Irina's not a host, she's the girl's actual body :P (I'm not going into a theory that causes only more questions.) And whatever happened to her via Seth, it could have made her able to move her soul from place to place similar to the Demons of Sin as opposed to dying right away when outside a vessel.

I'm just saying that if the cat gets stabbed by a physical weapon, it's not going to make a difference since the cat is stuffed--it is not going to die. If Irina's soul is not physical then I would think she could walk around with the cat having a gaping hole in it, since she apparently didn't need organs to function. Unless the cat actually split in two, but Germaine's sword isn't that thick...

I think maybe she left the cat then and fixated on a much less useful vessel until she could gather the strength to invade someone else/Germaine. (I'm less clear here--did she possess Germaine out of the blue or did she come to her with another unknown host...?)