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Shadow Twin




Shadow Twin

by Gardner Dozois, George RR Martin
and Daniel Abraham



Act I




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One



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Ramon Espejo awoke floating in a sea of darkness. For a moment, he was relaxed and mindless, drifting
peacefully, and then his identity returned to him desultorily, like an unwanted afterthought.

He was Ramon Espejo. He was working a prospecting contract out of Nuevo Janeiro. He was тАж he was
тАж

Where he had expected the details of his life to rush inтАФwhat he had done last night, what he was to do
today, what grudges he was nursing, what resentments had pricked him recentlyтАФthe next thought
simply failed him. He was Ramon EspejoтАФbut he did not know where he was. Or how he had gotten
there.

Disturbed, he tried to open his eyes, and found that they were open already. Wherever he was, it was a
totally dark place, darker than the jungle night, darker than the darkness in the deep caves in the
sandstone cliffs near Swan's Neck.


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Or perhaps he was blind.

That thought started a tiny spring of panic within him. There were stories of men who'd got drunk on