Knowing Me, Knowing You

by Rob Morris

Abbie Mills raced liked mad, seeing the Pandora-created duplicate in front of Crane, too far away to cry out.

She saw it fall before Crane's hasty grasp of a hammer to its skull, dissolving quickly.

"How did you know for sure it wasn't me?"

Crane nodded.

"As you for me in Moloch's illusions, so for myself here."

"Say again?"

Crane considered his words.

"Just as you were certain I would never use the improper 'Loo-tentant' to describe your rank, so was I that you would never loudly say, after hearing tell of Pandora's latest scheme, 'Oh No, She Didn't!' ."