disembodiments

Updated: June 18, 2025

And then it was he discovered, that to almost every human being in our world there pertained some of these drifting heads; that everyone in the world is watched intermittently by these helpless disembodiments. What are they these Watchers of the Living? Plattner never learned. But two, that presently found and followed him, were like his childhood's memory of his father and mother.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories