She sighed and drew away. "That was a lucky guess on your age."

* * * * *

Did that mean he wasn't right on anything else? From the expression

on her face, it did. "You've got to expect me to be confused in the

beginning. Can't you really tell who I am?"

"I _can't_! You don't have the same personality at all." She glanced at

her arm. There was a bruise on it.

"Did I do that?" he asked.

"You did, though I'm sure you didn't mean to. I don't think you

realized how strong you were. Dan was always too gentle--he must have

been afraid of me. And _you_ weren't at all."

"Maybe I was impetuous," he said. "But it was such a long time."

"Almost three months. But most of that time you were floating in

gelatin in the regrowth tank, unconscious until yesterday." She

leaned forward and caressed his cheek. "Everything seems wrong, no

matter how hard I try to believe otherwise. You don't have the same

personality--you can't remember anything."

"And I have one brown eye and one green."

"It's not just that, darling. Go over to the mirror."

He had been seriously injured and he was still weak from the shock. He

got up and walked unsteadily to the mirror. "Now what?"

"Stand beside it. Do you see the line?" Erica pointed to the glass.

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