" Pamela, you told me that you had been born here in Toridé, is that right?"Pamela answered, very carefully,"Yes, Helen, but as I have told you befor..., we have been travelling, for Madeleine's education. We have not lived here for some years now."Helen laid the sheet down in front of Pamela."Pamela Andersen. A very prestigious family register, with many great figures in her past. She was born years before the Monarchy fell, years before the Sisters of the Trinity took control of the land.. So now I go to work from 9 till 5 and uni 3 nights a week soI'm going to be very busy I have been dating this man 2 years now he iswonderful he is divorced with a 19 year old son , he has his own businessand he is very well off . Frank the man I'm seeing goes away a lot so Idon't get out much and I never get invited to work night outs either .A lot of our clients take the lawyers out for a night on the town someeven get to stay in penthouses . I think lots more goes on some of themdon't come in. I settled down to try to doze.We touched down (I use the expression loosely) at Kolin, the Kushtian capital's airport. I was grateful to get off the plane, though given the decrepit nature of the airport buildings, I felt I might have been safer in the air. A charmless Kushtian immigration officer scowled at my passport and waved me through. A sign in the baggage reclaim said in encouraging letters, "Air Kushtia : Kushtia's Favourite Airline". An indignant traveller had crossed out the word. Whether I called it my essence,my spirit, my disembodied consciousness or indeed my soul was beside thepoint; whatever had transmigrated from Colin's body to this one, it hadbrought his memories with it.I quickly abandoned this futile speculation. What use was metaphysicalenlightenment when I didn't know my own name?All at once I was overcome by despair. The task in front of me was toobig. I could adjust to being female, but the thought of meeting otherpeople, of trying to pass myself off as.