"Sometimes. Our actual lives were very dissimilar, but meeting others whose past lives I'd known was sometimes jarring. Separating who they were on Alternian from who'd they been on Beforus."

It was easier when he'd had a chance to know them personally: his Meulin and Mituna and Porrim were very much their own people. It was harder to separate Her Imperious Condescension from the Meenah he'd known.

"That and I didn't necessarily remember his life clearly or in order. It was like putting a puzzle together for a while, until I had most of the pieces. Even now it's not complete, but I haven't had a vision in sweeps so I think I have as much of it as I'm going to get."