I don’t have a body anymore? Ok, one step at a- Right. No feet. Because no body. Ah.

Whatever it is I am now, it certainly feels weird. Speaking of feeling, I have a few senses, despite this pervasive feeling of not having something to sense with. I can see the trees and dirt around me, in all three-hundred and sixty degrees, mind you, and I can sort of smell earthy and planty scents. I’ve never been good with smells.

Also, I'm pretty sure that I died just a few seconds ago. That, or this is even weirder than some reincarnation shenanigans.

I mean, yeah, it would make sense for me to be dead after that… It was a pretty big fall, I guess the water was a little harder than I gave it credit for, if that’s what happened.

Not important anymore, at least, not yet, because what the hell am I? I can see more angles than I ever thought possible, but I can’t feel any of the stuff I know I must be touching from my vision. 

Actually, is my vision really in three-sixty degrees? I feel like I can see what’s behind that tree over there, as though I were on the other side of that tree, when I focus on it. That… Wait a moment. 

I try it, and yes, I can ‘move’ where the point I’m observing from is, but doing so splits my vision. I thought two eyes were enough for a human, but two eyes observing omnidirectionally from two drastically different locations is… overwhelming, and I’m forced to stop quickly. I did get a glimpse of the primary viewing point from that temporary second one.

I think I’m some kind of orb. Not sure how else to describe it. I looked like some sort of colorless glass orb, yet I wasn’t transparent. Neat, but also, what?

I guess I’m still alive, but how exactly an orb is alive escapes me at the moment. My vision is making it a bit hard to think, though, I wonder if I can-

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Woah. Ok. Nevermind. The moment I try and think about closing my metaphorical eyes, I’m instead left in a dark void, with various colors floating all around and white outlines of the trees I’d been looking at before. Back to regular three-sixty vision, whatever my ‘eyes-closed’ state is, it’s far more distracting.

I guess it’d be a start to try and figure out what it is an orb can do, beyond apparently trip balls on command. For starters, let's try and roll forward, I guess? I’m not sure how I could achieve that, to be honest. My first idea is to just sort of will myself to roll forward, which appears to accomplish nothing. My second idea is to literally push myself, but again, no hands, so that won’t work.

Well. I guess I’m stuck here, but if that’s the case, I might as well take a look around. Splitting my vision is bound to give me a splitting headache, so I should probably find some way to ‘shut off’ my main orb’s vision without bringing me to shroomland.

A few minutes of trying later, and I think I’ve found out something huge. ‘Closing my eyes’ with the intent to just have them closed produces surrealist painting mode, but closing them with the intent to sleep produces true blackness… and also appears to make me actually fall asleep, at least for a little bit. The light level in the forest around me is significantly higher, so I think it’s later in the day now.

I did find out how to properly split my vision, though. I think the trick is thinking of it in ways it would work if I was a human, for example, what I’m doing now is looking at the orb that is me, but I can’t see out from the orb’s perspective. I just started really intensely focusing on looking in just one direction, like I was closing one eye during archery practice, and boom, I can ‘shut off’ orb vision while retaining remote vision. Excellent.

Not sure why I’m so happy about that. I haven’t figured out how to do anything else. I guess if this is supposed to be some sort of afterlife, whoever designed it either has shit tastes, or wants me to go insane figuring stuff out on my own.

I couldn’t force myself to wake up, so this isn’t a dream, either. So I guess I’m just an orb, now. I really wish I had more context for what it is that I am or am supposed to do.

The forest is nice, though. I wish I had a little more than sight and smell to go by, but it seems like a lovely place for a nature hike, even if there is a bit too much undergrowth and a bit too many bugs for my liking. Actually, I don’t recognize any of these bugs. I mean, this one here looks like a beetle that would exist back home, but it’s also got a bit of what I can only describe as mosquito-face. 

This wasp, too, while it’s definitely a wasp, it’s also… I don’t really have anything to compare it to, but it’s more like a ladybug with a stinger sized up a few times. One of the wasps actually climbed my orb a bit before flying off, and as expected, I didn’t feel a thing.

I focus my vision on a nearby branch, trying to look for more critters on the leaves, when a large insect spooks my, and I instinctively try to flinch away. Instead of closing my eyes and jerking back, though, that response instead is replaced by that cone of vision cutting briefly, and me being thrust back into my normal orb view mode. Which gives me an idea.