When the nurse asked him if he wanted to go to the library or "sun room", Lance chose the latter. He'd never really been much of a reader. Only things he ever read were car magazines, the newspaper, and once in a while he would dig out some old Playboys he kept in his closet. He'd only been in a library once, at an old girlfriend's insistance, and immediatly found it boring.

First thing Lance did was go look at that bulletin board. He'd stopped by this room on the way to breakfast and had looked at the board. He figured it might give him a clue as to what was going on. Lance had ended up replying to some post asking who was "feeling sane" today. Checking in on the message, it looked like he'd gotten a reply. Lance ended up having a conversation with the message-poster, some guy named Stefan, through the board. Kind of like an IM conversation, only on paper and with the time of replies further apart.

However, what Lance soon learned through these replies was... stunning. That Stefan guy had confirmed the nurse's statement that he had... that multiple personality condition. Stefan had even met his other self, this Lockdown.

Lance needed time to think, to absorb all this. He laid down on a couch, one in the shade, and stared at the ceiling. Was it really true? Was he really crazy? Did he really have another personality in his head? Or was this all just a dream, and any minute he would wake up?

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