"Oh yes," Tarantulas agrees with a quiet sigh. "That feeling and I are old, old companions indeed. I've never been compartmentalized, but there was an incident when I was younger..." His spider legs twitch slightly in a way that would very much like to be dismissive. "It left me with a tendency to dissociate under stress. I have it under control now, but those first hundred thousand years or so were a little touch and go. But I have to say," he says, trying to change the subject, "You seem impressively coherent for a persona fragment. Perhaps a piece of your soul was severed as well? That would be quite a first, at least so far as my knowledge goes! But how did you acquire this body?"

Perhaps Mortanne helped him Theodore like she did Tarantulas, but even more so?