During the past year I've grown comfortable with the idea of multiple "copies" of
Gohrlay both as analogues in different
Realities and in the form of artificial life versions of her original biological self. Now I've discovered that there are clones of Gohrlay, here in our
Reality, and there have been such clones going all the way back to the
First Reality.
Worse
What could be worse than making this discovery at such a late date? I've been slowly learning about the life that Gohrlay has led -the Gohrlay that I know. Now, suddenly, the question arises: what have Gohrlay's clones been doing? It seems clear that Gohrlay does not want to discuss this matter, so I'm forced to interpolate from the few comments that she has made. Now I suspect that not only are there clones of Gohrlay, but those clones have often been kept busy "dealing with" clones of me.
Alpha Gohrlay
In some sense, there was a competition between the various
Gohrlay clones to "develop" the best path into the future. Just before
the
Huaoshy put an end to time travel,
R. Gohrlay selected the "winner",
the particular Gohrlay clone who seemed to be best suited to "inherit"
all of R. Gohrlay's memories.
For lack of better terminology, I'm going to refer to the particular Gohrlay clone who received the R. Gohrlay
infites as Alpha Gohrlay. Alpha Gohrlay is apparently very busy and so only occasionally have I been in her presence. There are always some Gohrlay clones available to "fill in" for Alpha Gohrlay when she is too busy to be dealing with me. This might account for the frequent failure of Gohrlay to tell me anything useful about the past: most of the time I am with a Gohrlay clone who is not equipped with R. Gohrlay's vast store of information about past Realities.
I've long known that some clones of
Thomas and the
Atlantis Clones operated on Earth, so it is not really a surprise that there would be other sets of clones. I suspect that my clones might have been removed from Earth in the recent past, but if there are Gohrlay clones still on Earth then there could also be a few copies of me around.
I'm also left wondering if there have been clones of Gohrlay in previous Realities. I've long suspected that there were multiple copies of Gohrlay in the First Reality, but what about all of the many other Realities such as the
Asimov Reality and the
Ekcolir Reality?
Related Reading:
Zeta -
Yōd
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