Ben had always been a man of many surprises. As he stood in the lab observing the cloning of Xhangho and Iman, Fatuma wondered where he got his reserves of energy. She was mesmerized by his activeness considering that he had not slept for the last twenty four hours. As for her, the sense of having her husband back was enough to keep her awake and active indefinitely. They were observing the facsmile process on a screen as the genetic engineers endeavored to accomplish the best of their creations.
The engineers had earlier informed them that Xhangho's replication would take three hours while that of Iman would take twenty-four owing to the fact that his was being duplicated from a single cell. Now it was three hours after the initiation, and Xhangho's was almost complete. What was left was
