Oh yes, a little note before we begin: I forgot to ask this in the first chapter, but if you find any spelling/grammar mistakes then feel free to point them out to me and I'll try to correct them as fast as I can! (…and continuity issues. You can also point those out if you find any.)

Melina sat up and looked around frantically. She then quickly realized that she was sitting in Luke's bed and that, fortunately, his teddy bear hadn't fallen off the bed. Of course, there were much more pressing things to think about instead of the well-being of a stuffed bear. Like what she had just seen. What was that? Was it…a dream? Yes, it had to be... Not that it made any bit f sense. He had never seen this girl named 'Nina' ever before so it must have been Luke the one that had met her yet… For some reason she couldn't fathom, in the dream she still felt that was Melina. The dream had left her confused and with a strange buzz in the back of her head that insisted that what she had just dreamed was extremely important.

She couldn't afford to forget a single detail.

Melina got out of bed and scrambled towards the desk, where she frantically took out some spare paper and a pen. She wrote down as fast as she could with all matter of details that she could remember from the dream. However, the dream had felt so real it was hard to move from one particular scene without filling a side of the paper with tiny scrawls giving all sorts of miscellaneous details. Once she was sure that she had written everything that was worth remembering down, Melina set the paper aside and carefully tiptoed outside the boy's room.

Right in front of her in the hallway was a telephone. She unhooked it and- set it back down. Who was she supposed to call? She didn't know the professor's number, her father was in jail, her mother's family refused to acknowledge that she existed and Janice was going to spend all day long at the conservatory for a job.

She didn't need to use the telephone to get in contact with the closest people she could talk to.

She tip-toed towards the main chamber of the house, where both Mrs and Mr Triton slept. Judging from the blue light that the nearby window allowed to let in, it must have been early in the morning. She didn't want to wake them up, for some reason that she couldn't really understand since even if they were asleep she would have to wake them to tell them what had just happened.

Fortunately for her, she didn't need to ponder on whether she wanted to wake them up or not. The married couple was already getting started on their daily routine, although judging from the look of their faces, said routine should take place maybe two or three hours later, when they were fully rested.

"Good morning." Melina knocked on the slightly ajar door. "May I come in?"

The man turned towards the door and said: "Oh, of course! Do come in!"

"Melina? What are you doing at these early hours?" Mrs Triton set down her comb and turned towards her. "Did you have a nightmare?"

"I have something important to ask you." Melina looked at the kind woman's eyes. "Did Luke ever know someone named Nina?"

"Nina?" The woman turned to her husband "Isn't that the… girl Hershel told us about yesterday?"

"What girl?"

"What…you don't know?" Mrs Triton looked at her with disbelief. "Didn't the professor tell you anything about what had happened?"

"Of course not! The most I know was what Janice told me in the hospital. She told me that my father was building a machine to copy my personality unto other people and that's it."

Mr Triton pulled up his tie "…I guess that gives us a decent reference that Hershel had been having his head on the clouds. We will tell you all what he told us. It's basic courtesy."

"Yes, please." Melina stepped into the room and leaned on the door. She was glad that finally somebody had taken the time to explain whatever had happened after her "death". She would have been absolutely furious towards the professor if she could afford it but the circumstances made it so that she would have to express her remorse towards the man at a later time.

According to what the married couple told her, Nina was the name of a girl that had been kidnapped for Mr Whistler's experiments with the Detragan. She was the one girl that managed to assimilate most of her memories, though the copy hadn't been perfect, so it had left her somewhere halfway between being Melina and being Nina. Melina knew that she was going to be a precious lead in this bizarre case.

However, when she asked if Nina was the only one that had the transfer completed, she realized that it wasn't only the professor who had kept a massive secret from her.