Lizard

Part 1:  Awakening

	He woke up.  The room he was in was well furnished.  There was a
chair, a dresser, and a bed.  He was lying the bed.  There were two
doors, both open.  One was to the bathroom, the other was to another
room.

	"Where am I?" he thought to himself.  "Better, yet.  Who am I?"
He got out of bed and searched the room for a clue to who he was.  His
scaly tail was swishing behind him.  Not finding anything to tell him who
he was, he went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror.  The face
that looked back at him was of a lizard.

	He examined the rest of his body.  His skin was covered in green
scales.  His tail was longer than his legs.  His hands had five claw-like
fingers.  His toes were claw-like to match.  "So," he said to himself,
"I'm a reptile." For some reason, that didn't seem right to him, but his
reptilian body felt as natural to him as if he was born with it.

	He decided to explore more to search out his identity.  He went
out the other door in the bedroom and walked into what looked like a
living room.  On the coffee table were some pictures.  They were of him
with other animals.  All the animals were on two legs, like him.  That
didn't seem right to him either.  None of the pictures had any names on
them.

	He went to the front door to his house and opened it.  The day was
bright and sunny.  The sun felt good on his scaly hide.  "I must be
cold-blooded," he thought.  He looked around at his yard.  The mail box
was in the wall of the porch.  He had mail.  There were bills and an
issue of "Scales! (the magazine for reptiles.)"  All were addressed to
Tim Grey.  "I am Tim Grey," he said aloud.  "Unless this is not in my
house."  Inside the phone rang.  Tim went back inside and answered it.
"Hello?"

	"Tim?" asked the voice on the other end.  "Is that you?"

	"I guess," Tim said.

	"How are you feeling?" asked the voice.  "You over that Reptilian
Flu?"

	"Yes, I think," Tim answered.  He didn't feel sick.  "Who are
you?"

	"This is Frank," said the voice.  "Don't you remember me?"

	"I don't remember anything," Tim replied.  "I don't even remember
who I am."

	"Oh," Frank said sounding let down.  "I'll be right over.  I'll
bring Cindy and James, too.  Is that OK?"

	"Sure," Tim said.  "I'll get straightened up."

	"OK, see you in about 30 minutes.  Bye", Frank said hanging up the
phone.

	Tim hung up his phone and went into his bedroom to take a shower
and get dressed.  He must have always been a reptile.  Not only were
there pictures of him, but all of his pants, shorts, and underwear had
holes in them for his tail.  He had finished dressing and was tying his
shoes when the doorbell rang.

	"Hello, Tim," said the man resembling a camel when Tim answered
the door.  "I'm Frank.  Remember?"

	"No, but come on in," Tim replied opening the door more.  Frank
walked in followed by a frog and a horse.  Tim still had that strange
feeling that these animals walking on two legs was wrong.

	Frank noticed Tim's confusion.  "Tim, this is James," he said
pointing to the frog.  "And this is Cindy."  Frank motioned to the horse.
"We are your closest friends."

	"Tim," Cindy took her queue, "We are going to try to help you
remember who you are.  That Reptilian Flu you had must have affected your
memory."

	"I've never heard of a case like that," James replied.

	"I haven't either," Tim said frustrated.  "I haven't even heard of
the Reptilian Flu."

	"You have," Frank said.  "You just don't remember.  The Reptilian
Flu is a version of the flu that only reptiles get.  You happened to get
it bad."

	All four of them sat and talked for hours.  Frank, Cindy, and
James all tried to get Tim to regain his memory.  No one succeeded.  Tim
didn't remember anything.  But, when his three friends had left, Tim now
knew more about his life than he did.  "If only I could remember all this
instead of hearing it second hand," Tim thought to himself.

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	Frank was driving away from Tim's house.  "So, what do you think
about 'our friend?'" he asked Cindy and James.

	"I think he has definitely lost his memory," Cindy replied.  "I
don't think he could have acted like he had for that long."

	"Tim seems like he is going to fit in with the community very
well," James said.  "He's going to be a common citizen like everyone
else."

	"The Doctor is going to be pleased to hear our report," Frank said
smugly.  All three wore a grin for the rest of their trip.