[The blankness cracks a little, with something a little annoyed, a little bleak with worry, and something that teeters on denial in the cracks.]
Glad we're asking the questions we mean, now. For expected rememberings... It could just be shock. I've been through something stressful very recently, I hear shock happens in cases like that.
[It could just be shock. He hasn't had the time to sit and go through a listing of everyone he knows, or all his personal history. Not in full enough detail to know if there's any other gaps. He hasn't had very long to recuperate from the shock of dying, not with not-drowning in mud for however long, and then going directly into a conversation. It's just... his own name is a really notable gap. And he doesn't want to just admit it, if there's any chance they're mistaken and it'll come back as he recovers.]
maybe they can both learn things together, and feel that human emotion of friendship =]
Glad we're asking the questions we mean, now. For expected rememberings... It could just be shock. I've been through something stressful very recently, I hear shock happens in cases like that.
[It could just be shock. He hasn't had the time to sit and go through a listing of everyone he knows, or all his personal history. Not in full enough detail to know if there's any other gaps. He hasn't had very long to recuperate from the shock of dying, not with not-drowning in mud for however long, and then going directly into a conversation. It's just... his own name is a really notable gap. And he doesn't want to just admit it, if there's any chance they're mistaken and it'll come back as he recovers.]