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My chest tightened and I gasped. Two hearts? I stared at him open-mouthed.
Well, that explains why my heartbeat is so erratic! I thought to myself. There’s nothing wrong – It’s because I’m feeling two heartbeats!
I put a hand on the left side of my chest, then put my other hand on the right. Sure enough, there were two heartbeats. Both pounding out a rhythm inside my ribcage. That would take a bit of getting used to, but at least I could stop worrying about what was wrong with me. I’d been thinking that I might only inhabit my new body for a short time and then die from a heart attack or something.
I drew in my breath and let it out slowly. It was such a relief. Knowledge was such a beautiful thing.
“That is another improvement on our own physiology,” Dr Starrick continued, “To have
