Zoe gets more information about this new reality

Zoe's voice was, well, Zoe's voice. Did it make sense for them all to be called Zoe? How could they tell each other apart?

Zoe: Um, hi, I'm... Zoe. I'm in the hospital. I had an accident. I was told I'm in the hospital and that you... are my tutor. My memories are a little fuzzy about everything.

Zoe tutor: Zoe? Oh, god, I'm sorry. Did they tell you if you could leave the hospital?

Zoe: Yes, but it's all so strange... the world isn't as I remember it...

Zoe tutor: Oh, I've heard of cases like this in the past... do you by any chance remember a world not populated only by us?... I mean, old humanity? I wrote a university essay on the original Zoe's phantom memory syndrome.

Zoe: The thing? How do you know?

Tutor Zoe: Oh, you hit the nail on the head. Basically, the nanites in your body uploaded a fraction of the original Zoe's memories before she rewrote reality. So, you have a rare window into a practically forgotten past. I know several historians who would like to meet you. Anyway, I'd already been notified of your whereabouts, so I can pick you up. Your memories will return sooner or later, so don't worry, I'll be there.

Nurse Zoe: Phantom memory syndrome? Wow, it's rare, but it gives meaning to your strange questions... that almost makes you the original... do you want to fuck?

Zoe: What?! No!

Nurse Zoe: Too bad, anyway, I have to get back to the ward, and if you need anything else... you know where to find me, Zoe.

The way the nurse said it was a clear invitation to bed. Holy shit, she was in a world populated by self-replicating, perverted clones of her. And now they'd just tried to convince her that she was one of them, her memory altered by a mysterious nanomachine that had somehow gone haywire. On the one hand, it made sense to the nurse's existence, but who would immediately believe something like that? She lifted her feet and headed for the window. It was designed so it couldn't be opened, probably to prevent a confused patient from accidentally hurting himself. Zoe shook the curtains. What she saw made her blood run cold.

A hospital complex, many people walking through the streets connecting the different buildings, all of them were her, here she saw some little girls or girls who were her when they were young, but the majority of them were eighteen-year-old Zoes, each acting independently as if all this were normal, families finding relatives, people stopping to chat, staff on cigarette breaks, her gaze stopped on two Zoes holding hands, one of them pregnant with her hand on her belly as they sat on a bench chatting, god they looked so cute together... she immediately closed the curtain and sat back on the bed, shocked both by the sight and by her last thought, that she had found two of her clones cute together as a family, as if it were normal. She felt nauseous, her emotions became confused, was it real? Was she actually in a coma in a real hospital and was she having some strange dream? She pinched her arm, the pain was real if this was a dream it was too realistic.

She spent her time trying to process her new reality, questioning the world and herself. For now, she had no reason to think the nurse and the tutor were lying, but perhaps they were wrong. What if she'd been transported to a parallel world like an isekai? Only less fantasy and more sci-fi madness? At a certain point, two Zoes entered the room.

Zoe immediately recognized the nurse. She didn't know why, but she was certain it was the nurse who had looked after her before. The other Zoe, on the other hand, was wearing a dark blue skirt and a white shirt, her hair pulled back in a ponytail, a hairstyle she would never have chosen.

Tutor Zoe: Hi Zoe, as you can see, I'm here. Get up, I'll take you back to campus. Your roommates and your parent are very worried.

Parent... not parents.

Zoe: I... only have one parent?

Zoe Tutor: Oh no, it's just that it's complicated to define how a family is structured or which Zoe pushed one parent to conceive another Zoe, so legally speaking, each Zoe has only one parent. Then, if they want to marry one or more Zoes, they can give their little ones one or more surrogate mothers.

The thought terrifies her: being the daughter of another Zoe, if what they'd told her was true, her parents didn't exist here, erased like a temporal paradox... no, she wanted to believe they were waiting for her in her true reality.

Zoe Tutor: Zoe, are you okay?

Zoe: I realized... that I won't meet...

Zoe Tutor looked sympathetic and sad.

Zoe Tutor: Whatever it means, my condolences, but if it makes you feel better, these memories... they're not really yours... you haven't really lost anyone, and soon you'll remember the people in your life. I made a couple of calls.

Your mother should be here within half an hour. We'll be there in about twenty minutes.

Zoe: Okay, I'll come with you, but... it's normal that... well, the nurse is really insistent about sex.

Zoe Tutor bangs her head.

Zoe Tutor: Looks like I'm going to have to explain something to you about periods.

Zoe: Periods? Isn't it... well, bleeding once a month and mood swings?

Zoe Tutor: Yes, that's right... but it sounds like we're talking about different mood swings?

Zoe: Wait... are you telling me... that we have periods when we're more...

Zoe Tutor: Let's say needy, about three days a month, and considering the huge population, you'll meet countless Zoes throughout the day who find themselves in this situation, just like your nurse.

Zoe, I think about it for a second. 3 days a month of super horny, 3 days out of 30, if every Zoe isn't coordinated to have the same days... it meant that 1/10 of Zoe's population in the world was in this situation and it also meant that if she really was from this world... sooner or later she too... decided to put it out of her head, she herself must surely come from another dimension! This couldn't happen to her, right!?