yeah

How? Why?

i don't really know
but i like being one!
i think normally the body is still hooked up in a vat

or ok i like being one except that i can't move at all can we go be not in a hallway

It seems like a fine hallway to Bella. It is not crowded, it is not raining, and she has nowhere else to be. She will however consider this maybe possibly adequate invitation to pick up the thing in the box. The mind moves with the thing and not the box so she decides the box is probably irrelevant. Can you see, do I need to carry you in the open? Or should I put you in my backpack?

i can see and hear through the light part of me it's meant to hook over your ear and go in front of your eye
you can flip the ear part a half circle around if you want it to go in front of your other eye instead
it's fine to put my brain in your backpack that's normal

(The cord is long enough to enable this and then some.)

.....why in front of my eye? I could just, like, tuck the "ear part" into my collar.

the eyepiece is a screen and i can make things happen on it but this doesn't matter because you're psychic i can go in your collar if you want
i can also project text onto surfaces and this could help you talk to other people i don't know if I can aim very well from your collar it will probably depend

She backpacks the heavy part and tucks the earpiece into her collar.

thank you!

It projects a 'this is a test' at the foot of the capsule underneath Bella's.  It seems to do okayish even though the eye part won't really stay up in this position.

What is the existence of a subtle artist important, uh, for?

oh i don't know what do you guys normally do in your world?
we don't have any so probably that

I'm in college and planning to be a therapist. I guess I can imagine that being an important niche based on who I have met so far, but I don't actually know how yet.

oh i might go mad soon if i don't get put back with the rest of me maybe you can help with that although i would really like to get put back with the rest of me before then anyway

Not only am I not trained up to the standard back home, the standard back home does not include that! We don't have whatever you are! I am happy to return you to the rest of you whenever you tell me where that is!

i don't know that i assume my overself is going to be keeping track of us and will take me back when it's ready
what's your name?

Bella. What's yours?

i think if i remembered that i could track the rest of myself down
also am i even the sort of thing that should have the same name as my overself really 
maybe i should get a nickname

Okay, what should I call you?

i will think on it i am taking suggestions
hi bella
is there anything i should know about you to help you that would not be something i could know by having watched what you've done so far on public cameras?

I don’t know how cameras work or where they will have seen me...

they are just computer eyes
well
they can also save everything they see into a memory that other beings can watch

i have the memories of when you appeared and talked to people on the street and went to the convenis and a very distant view from in the library and one in the lobby of this place
mostly with no sound only visuals
but i have a list of more information than that i think my overself or somebody interviewed some of the people you talked to

Which one?

my notes have confidence disclaimers about the the hybrid lady and the employees at the first conveni and the library

The... hybrid lady?

She's still standing in the hallway for lack of a better idea. She might wind up going to the library to check on the librarian, though.

you talked to her on the street and she looked more like a dog than most people do
oh do you have dogs where you're from
she had more hair