
Which meant I had to endure what medications they wanted to give. Or sometimes they’d zap me. Other days it was nice, because they’d put food in a room full of walls and ask me to find it. I don’t know how I did — the smell was so overpowering, but I found it in minutes — and they always seemed excited when I did that. ANYHOW, one day I woke up with an extra head. How did I know it was extra? I happened to catch a glance of my face once — I was allowed no mirrors, but they had polished one metal wall a bit too well, and I saw myself (which is forbidden, apparently). Thick, wavy clumps of white hair hung to my shoulder, and a pair of red eyes stared back at me. I was mostly pale. I had dark circles under my eyes. My teeth were crooked and yellow. I cracked a smile and looked uncomfortable. But that’s how I found out I only had one head, so when I woke up and felt another one, I knew it was the second. The scientists — or so they call themselves — didn’t look surprised at all. They examined my second head and determined she was in “good working order”, or whatever that meant.













