[For a long moment there is only silence. Charles busy staring at himself. But no. That wasn't quite right. There were little things he felt he could see that others might not have, but this person with his name and his face was staring back. He had been wrong. He could be more surprised.]
I see...
[Except Charles did not see. The evidence was there but the implausibility of it all was weighing heavily on his mind with a skepticism he was unused to feeling and a loss of words he rarely experienced.]
Remarkable.... [Perhaps he was dreaming. Hallucinating? Coping mechanisms. He had argued with himself before but this was so much more than an inner monologue of conflicting ideas trying to reconcile each other.]
[voice]
I see...
[Except Charles did not see. The evidence was there but the implausibility of it all was weighing heavily on his mind with a skepticism he was unused to feeling and a loss of words he rarely experienced.]
Remarkable.... [Perhaps he was dreaming. Hallucinating? Coping mechanisms. He had argued with himself before but this was so much more than an inner monologue of conflicting ideas trying to reconcile each other.]