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[He's silent, head tilted down to think.]

[He's silent a. Long time.]

...Dusk?

[No response.]

[He maaaaay have zoned out completely. Not too different from when he was taking a memory.]

[Gently touches his shoulder.]

Dusk?

[His hand shoots up to grab his wrist. It isn't enough to hurt, more just a solid circle around his wrist, but not squeezing.]

[He blinks rapidly, looking up.] Hm?

[Honestly it'd take a lot to hurt him anyway. He smiles gently, squeezing Dusk's shoulder gently.]

Lost you to the clouds for a few minutes there.

Oh. Sorry, I'm fine.

That didn't look fine.

I just zoned out?

That wasn't zoning out that was going to another planet.

....it...wasn't?

[Except he's been worried that was a weird thing to do since he did it with Crow, but Crow had been so laidback about it he thought he was just being paranoia.]

You didn't even notice me until I touched you. It'd be one thing if you were lost in thought to begin with but we were talking and then you were just gone.

I was remembering the thing with Doyle. Going over the details to see how I was.

[Hm.]

How perfectly do you recall it?

[There is a confused look on his face.]

Oh! Because of the concussion.

No, everything was still clear.

No, I mean do you remember every detail?

Edited 2019-08-02 05:42 (UTC)

Yyyyyyyyes?

Like, every detail? The number of trees, how many tiles on the floor, that kind of detail?

Why....wouldn't I?

I mean, older memories are fuzzy, but General Doyle feels a lot more recent. A lot of familiar aches.

[What happens when an AI based on memory blows up in your head?]

[Hell of a good memory, but also a hell of an ability to check out on the world too.]

[Yeah he's figuring that out.]

That was actually my next question, if the memories before the AI thing were the same.

Most people don't have that kind of eidetic memory. It doesn't sound like it's natural for you either.

Edited 2019-08-02 05:53 (UTC)

....they don't? It's....been that way since I got here?

A photographic memory is pretty rare, actually.

....maybe that's why I have a headache.

[Absolutely is, he's been trying to process those details in the present too much.]

Sounds like a possibility. If it was something from that AI you're missing and not a natural ability, it's probably a lot of... high attention you're not quite equipped for.

....I was more....focused? With Doyle.

But I was also concussed.

[So head still hurt because his life is suffering.]