She woke up.

She did not know where she was.

The room was small. The walls were gray. There was a window that looked out on a brick wall three feet away. A radiator hissed.

She looked at her hands. They were too long. The joints were too big. There was a scar on her left hand that she did not recognize.

She walked to the bathroom. In the mirror was a face she did not know. Thirty-something. Brown hair. Dark circles under the eyes.

She searched her pockets. Found an ID card: Katie Moran, Room 433.

She did not know what 433 meant. But her body knew how to find it. Muscle memory.

She walked out of the room. Down the stairs. Through the hallway. The hallway smelled of old cigarettes, overcooked cabbage, disinfectant. She felt familiar with these smells but could not say where from.

She sat on the bed. Looked out the window. A city. A gray sky. A truck passed on the street. The horn honked.

Then the memories came.

No. Not came. Rose up. Like a tide.

A woman's memories. Twenty-five. Mild intellectual disability. Lived in the apartment for three years. Liked blue. Hated mushrooms. Her mother died last year.

But there was another layer. Deeper. Sharper.

A man's memories. Sixty-seven. Physics professor. Spent his life studying consciousness. Did an experiment before he died. Put his consciousness into this woman's brain.

Two layers of memory stacked together. Like two transparent sheets.

She looked at them. She did not know which was real.

She walked to the table. Picked up a pen. Wrote on the paper:

Who am I?

The pen stopped.

Then she wrote another word:

Unimportant.

She put the pen down. Walked to the window. Looked at the street below.

A woman walking a dog. A man waiting for a bus. A child chasing a balloon.

Life goes on.

No matter who you are.

She picked up the phone. Dialled a number.

The phone rang.

She did not know what she was going to say.

She did not need to know.

She held the phone to her ear and listened to the ringing.

Ring. Ring. Ring.

Outside, a siren wailed. Distant. Fading.

She thought about the scar on her hand. She traced it with her thumb. It was raised. Rough. Older than she was. Or younger.

She thought about blue. She liked blue. Or someone did.

She thought about quantum field theory. She knew the seven axioms. Or someone did.

She did not know which thought was hers.

It did not matter.

The phone stopped ringing.

She did not pick it up.

She put it down. Walked back to the window. Pressed her forehead against the glass. It was cold.

Below, the child caught the balloon. The mother picked up the child. They walked away.

She watched them go.

Then she turned around and sat on the bed and waited.

For what, she did not know.

She did not need to know.

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