  The paired state of composite fermions is expected to support two kinds of
excitations: vortices and unpaired composite fermions. We construct an explicit
microscopic description of the unpaired composite fermions, which we
demonstrate to be accurate for a 3-body model interaction, and, possibly,
adiabatically connected to the Coulomb solution. This understanding reveals
that an unpaired composite fermion carries with it a charge-neutral
"topological" exciton, which, in turn, helps provide microscopic insight into
the origin of zero modes, fusion rules, and energetics.
