Chapter One
Soulmates
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Part One
Even before Tsering developed the procedure, his reflection
no longer looked right. Chime really had been his
other half, and when she died, leaving behind a pale and waxy
shell that, unanimated, bore no resemblance to the woman
he loved, his face in the mirror looked at least half as empty
as hers had.
Still, he could not bear to let go of her shell. His family
was long dead and he had no close friends to urge him to let
the past go and allow her remains to be cremated. That was
not in the old way of his people anyway. In the wintry times
in Tibet, when the ground was far too hard to bury ordinary
folk, bodies would be given to the wild animals. All life was
one, ...
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