Haha, that's right! It's just a freeloader. [He says it cheerfully enough, but he's still dwelling on her situation.] I can't... feel it, exactly, not as if it's a real creature crawling on me, but I still know where it is. Kind of like knowing where your hand is in relation to your body without looking.

[A side effect of his spiritual sense, he assumes.]

But it pretty much acts completely independently from me. It likes to move closer to the sun or a source of heat sometimes, but there isn't any... communication, or feedback between us. It's just something that lives on me. Ha, I can't imagine what it must be like for you.