The Skin You Inhabit

He remembers himsefl more and more as he watches the security logs of the woman that used to be Marta Shearing – she calls herself Rebecca Gordon, owns her new identity with ease. She has shed skin after skin in the two years they've been apart, like a snake (like a taught her to). Remembers that he's been watching over her a long time. That had been the deal: a life for a life.