"Amnesia? So what? I'm perfectly able to take care of myself. It isn't as if I'm on an alien world or something. Kedak is my home. Kedak is—"
"Do you believe in reincarnation?" Quotis asked abruptly.
For a while Rhodes did not answer. And, when finally he did, it was with a question of his own. "Why do you ask that?"
"Because it might answer at least one question for you: whether you are of high or low birth. If of low, then...."
Rhodes said with a smile, "Since I haven't jumped on your back and started gouging out your eyes, I guess I wasn't Kedaki baseborn."
"You highborn Kedaki certainly make no attempt to hide your irreverency!"
"Well, why should they?" said Rhodes. "After all, the system is clearly one which...."
"They? Did you say they?"
"I guess I did."
"Doesn't that strike you as rather odd?"