“You know,” he said slowly. “Maybe we’ve got this wrong. Maybe we didn’t get snatched. Maybe we carried on past the ship we were sent to investigate and continued hurtling into space, completely safe.”
“Even for you, your observational powers seem to be lacking, Samuel. In case you hadn’t noticed, we are here!”
“Yes. We are. But are we really us?”
“What in the stars do you mean?”
“What if we aren’t us? Not the originals, I mean. What if we were copied somehow? Like being backed up.”
Despite its current humanoid form, the Suit had no face to read… but Samuel was able to read some of its body language. At that moment it was screaming confusion and worry. Finally, it nodded its helmet slightly.
“I apologise, Samuel. You thought of something that hadn’t even occurred to me, a
