"This is a manifestation of the humanoid body I occasionally occupy in the waking plane," she explains patiently, in the practiced tone of someone who has recited this bit of information plenty of times, or someone who is perhaps just in the habit of dispensing information. "I like to interact with linear beings and reality, sometimes. In the telepathic network, of course, I can choose any appearance I wish, or none at all." And sometimes she's a unicorn, but that doesn't seem especially relevant right now.

But now for one of her questions. "You did not seem as surprised by my dimensional transcendentalism as most people, when you came to visit. Is that common in your universe?"