Trip's reaction was wrong. Everything about it was simply wrong, and it was concerning--and then he came waltzing back into the scene, and Malcolm stopped dead in his tracks. "What the hell?"

Whatever was going on, it was utter nonsense. There was certainly something dark about this doppelganger, something he did not at all like immediately. And Trip--had he done something to Trip, or was this one also just a...a...well, a different one, at the very least?

"Someone had best explain themselves," he barked, wishing he had his phase pistol on him, "now."