@thcmost - Continued from here
The gift was accepted and pocketed. That is certainly a relief. It would have been rather scary to consider the possibility of meeting someone that looks almost like a perfect reflection, except that they were mean.
(That would be a very mean Hallowe'en prank to play. Especially when it isn't October!)
Still, it was peculiar to see someone so like you when you spent your life knowing everyone else in the locality was so unlike you. It made everything very exciting to have all the different interests and personalities! But to have someone that looks the same... Wally thinks that this would make such an encounter a little easier. You'd know what to expect in conversation, right?
"Thank you," he smiled, only for it to waver a little at the follow on question. "I had thought this was my Home. But it isn't. It's as lovely as welcoming as mine, but I somehow knew this wasn't mine before I saw you... I think I might be very lost."