第01章 伊甸园 (05/17)

What if she had been given a different name? Anne Knutsen, for instance. Would she then have been someone else? She suddenly remembered that Dad had originally wanted her to be called Lillemor.

Sophie tried to imagine herself shaking hands and introducing herself as Lillemor Amundsen, but it seemed all wrong. It was someone else who kept introducing herself. She jumped up and went into the bathroom with the strange letter in her hand.

She stood in front of the mirror and stared into her own eyes. " I am Sophie Amundsen, " she said. The girl in the mirror did not react with as much as a twitch. Whatever Sophie did, she did exactly the same.

Sophie tried to beat her reflection to it with a lightning movement but the other girl was just as fast. " Who are you? " Sophie asked. She received no response to this either, but felt a momentary confusion as to whether it was she or her reflection who had asked the question.

Sophie pressed her index finger to the nose in the mirror and said, " You are me."