"Leroy Brown," Leroy said, answering his private work line.
"Sir, this is Tad Forrest reporting in. I have some information about Christian Thomas?"
Leroy took a moment to save his impatience for not getting a written report.
"Yes?"
"Sir, Christian just visited the Hansons - he left just a few minutes ago. Sir... Christian is some sort of clone of Taylor."
"What?" Leroy gasped. "How? No, that can't be right, Christian had telekinesis..."
"They said something about parts of Isaac being incorporated, so he's not a true clone. It was also said that Christian takes advantage of this to get onto the station."
"He what?" Leroy practically exploded. "Christian's been on the station? Posing as Taylor?"
"Yes sir."
"Taylor comes up so regularily... and the telepaths never bother scanning him because of the state his mind is in..." Leroy shook his head. "Is there anything else?"
"Taylor also said that a 'Steel' was increasing contact with him lately. And apparently Christian likes to draw dragons," Tad replied. "That last point is probably trivial."
"Hmm. I want a full, written report by morning."
"You'll have it tonight, sir."
"Good. Thank you for informing me immediately. Any breaches in Station security I like to know about."
"I thought you would, sir."
"Good man."
The two soon hung up. Tad was feeling deighted with having earnt Leroy's approval and went straight to work on his report.
Leroy let out a heavy breath. He pulled up Christian's file and Taylor's file and compared the pictures. Why did it never occur to him before that they looked alike?
He started... Taylor always visited Tanya when he was here for his treatments - if Christian was coming up impersonating him, he could completely get away with visiting Tanya without rousing even a bit of suspicion. He considered the matter carefully, wondering what measures he could put into place without rousing suspicion.
He thought briefly about confronting Tanya, and decided against it. If she was honest with him, and his suspicions were right, he would be obligated to mete out justice. And he didn't want to have to punish Tanya.
The thought he refused to dwell on was that he may have to anyway.