Horsesense Hank in the parallel worlds

Well, you know me! Old brain-like-a-fish Blakeson. I stared at him foolishly for a moment, then, when he said no more about it, decided Hank had finally developed, along with hi...

Then Horsesense Hank--_my_ Horsesense Hank, I should say--put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Easy, Jim!" And the _other_ Horsesense Hank put his hand on the _other_ me's arm...

I didn't say it just like that, I guess. I said it more like, "M-m-m-might have b-b-been?" All right, so my teeth were chattering! So what? So maybe it was cold; how do you know?

I should have been whooping with joy to look upon a set of familiar faces, even though those faces were our own. But do you know, my first conscious reaction was one of rage? An...