As they travelled south, Myles was in the passenger seat. They'd been in the car just over a hour when he received a text message telling him to check his e-mails, he scrolled through the phone's menu and began downloading his office e-mails.
The one marked human cloning was the one that caught his eye straight away. There were images attached to the e-mail so he downloaded them and was sitting there open mouthed as he checked the picture he had of Charon Death against the images he'd just downloaded to his phone.
"Stop the car."
His driver looked at him sideways.
"What?"
Myles glared at him.
"I said stop the car...NOW!"
His driver stopped and pulled off to one side. Myles pushed the phone images into his face and also gave him the missing poster he had clutched in his hand.
"Do these images look like the missing wrestler Charon Death to you?"
He stared at them for several seconds.
"I'd say they were identical actually apart from the injuries."
Myles stared at the images for a few more minutes.
"How can we have a positive sighting in the south and images from a camera phone sent from a postmark in the east? The question is do we continue south now and end up wasting our time or go east and then find out its a hoax of some kind?"
The driver shrugged. Myles looked out of the windshield in deep thought and absentmindedly took his phone back from an equally puzzled driver. Seconds later the phone rang and Myles shoved it to his ear and barked a curt "Hello?". He listened intently, closed the phone and then turned to the driver.
"OKay keep going south, it seems they have someone who looks exactly like Charon Death in custody and they will be shortly transferring her to a local hospital for tests."
Several hours later they had diverted to the local hospital where Myles found himself shaking hands with a very tall stern looking doctor who seemed to have a general dislike of police officers. Myles introduced himself and asked if he could see the patient, the doctor seemed to be weighing him up.
"I need to warn you that we've talked with her numerous times in the hours it has taken you to arrive and she remembers absolutely nothing, she doesn't even to appear to know who she is. She also has a very nasty gun shot scar on her forehead and one to her chest. The x-rays have revealed numerous breaks which have healed indicating she was thrown from a moving vehicle. Other than that we can't say anything for certain until DNA tests come back from the lab."
Myles nodded and then decided on showing the doctor the images he'd been sent by his secretary via e-mail. The doctor stared at him.
"Where were those taken?"
Myles shrugged.
"We have no idea but they were mailed to me several hours ago by my secretary. Is it possible that this person in this photo is also the person you have in that room?"
The doctor appeared stumped.
"I don't understand how it could be but they certainly look like the young woman in that room."
Myles re-read Charon Death's medical file as the two exchanged a couple more things.
"Charon Death has three children, if that woman in there is her, then there would be signs of childbirth right?"
The doctor nodded and then frowned.
"Could I see the medical file you have there for a few moments?"
Myles handed it to him.
"She heals twice as fast as a normal human but other than that, there should still be scarring and stretching from childbirth. It says here that she had to have stitches with the birth of her twins. I'll have a nurse do an exam."
The two stood outside the room both thinking through what had happened so far and they both jumped when the nurse opened the door and removed her surgical gloves.
"The woman in that room looks exactly like Charon Death but it ain't her, no way, that woman has never had a child in her life and before you ask, she hasn't had surgery either because I checked. Oh and no she hasn't had no cosmetic work done either, there ain't no scars no where."
Myles frowned now, he'd read somewhere that Charon Death had a huge scar in a pentagram shape on her back, there was even a photograph of it. He pulled it from the thick file he held and showed it to the nurse.
"Is there anything resembling that scar on her back?"
She looked straight back at him.
"Like I said, there ain't no scars anywhere on that woman's body other than the one's the bullets made."
Now Myles was confused and looked at the doctor.
"How can two people look exactly alike without being twins?"
The doctor was looking at the images that Myles had given him a little while earlier and then looked up at him.
"This message is headed Human Cloning, here look at each image, they've been taken in different locations, which suggests that there is more than one but if you look closely there is a flaw on each image of the body. This one has one blue eye and one brown, this one has a stunted arm. Someone is cloning or attempting to clone Charon Death. I think they may have succeeded at least once but the problem is they haven't been able to give the clone Charon's memories which is why she doesn't remember anything."
Myles stared at him and looked more closely at the images and realised he was right.
"Is that even possible?"
The doctor looked at the woman in the room as the curtains were drawn back, then at the image on the missing poster and then at the images on Myle's phone.
"Have a look for yourself, what do you think?"
Myles stared at her, she most certainly looked like Charon Death but the lack of scarring and indications of childbirth meant it couldn't be her, so where was the original?
