Break-Up (27)
UNITED STATES—“As I said before, the killer saw something so traumatic that it triggered cognitive dissonance. He blotted it out of his mind or thought he was dreaming. What they saw before fleeing the crime was that the victim of the hammer-blow was someone identical to himself. Identical to the twin brother given up for adoption that the killer had no idea existed.
“You see,” Zorba concluded. “Identical twins have the same DNA and that is why you, according to treaty with the joint federation, received notice of the DNA finding.” Zorba in a pique of kamikaze daring and rage against all the cool interior developed thanks to his grandma. “So you must have plenty of eyes and ears in the Underground Cities, despite your proud technology-free self-sufficiency up here. You’re a regular Christmas tree with pill-pods stuck in your back. I was kidnapped and taken up here with one of those things stuck in my spine. It boils down to this,” Zorba said staring down The Leader. “You killed your own brother “