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trembling. He felt the trembling all through his body.

He opened the door. Lear was still asleep. Teresa sat on the edge of the bed,
her gaze unfocused, but as Samuel entered the room she turned and looked at him,
eyes widening.

"Samuel?" Her voice was warped and distorted, as if she was speaking through
metallic water.

He didn't reply. Something about her silently snapped into focus, a
solidification, a sharpening of resolution, and she was completely there.

"Samuel?" she said again. This time her voice was almost normal, almost
Teresa's.

He still didn't reply. She stood and walked toward him, then reached out and
touched his arm with warm dry fingers, and he shivered inside, his chest
collapsing in on itself.

"Samuel," she said for the third time, but now there was no question.

Finally his volition returned, along with breath and pulse.

"Yes," he said.

She touched him again and he stepped back.

"Do you know who you are?" he asked.

"Yes, of course. I'm Teresa. Don't you know who you are, Samuel?" And she
smiled.

"Do you know what you are?"

Her smile faded, but she nodded. "I am one of Lear's dreams." She paused,
breathing deeply. "But I am still Teresa."

Samuel shook his head, so slowly it seemed the room was moving from side to
side. "No. You are only the Teresa that he imagines you are. Or were. Or the
Teresa he wanted you to be."

This time it was her turn to shake her head. "You're wrong, Samuel. I am
everything he knows about me, whether he liked it or not. He can't change his
own knowledge of me."


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