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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?

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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.

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....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.]

So you're going to be trying to recall things in total detail from memories huh? There's got to be a way around that.

It looks like. I mean, I don't always zone out. Just. When I'm focused on it.

Does it affect your headache at all?

No? Nothing I've noticed. But I am really zoned out.

I wonder if meditation would help at all.

....couldn't hurt. Right?

Fortunately I've never heard of meditation hurting anyone.

We'll give that a shot then.

After I've caught up on a little sleep.

....though, I guess now we know why I got all gung ho about the bonding thing. [Threat of extinction makes for being dedicated to just. Not.]

Yeah. You're real dedicated to saving people.

It's not like we had much choice.

The Covenant had a lot better weapons than us, especially if they don't even need to go planet side if they don't want anything from it. And I didn't feel any doubt.

They just wanted us dead. For some reason, I didn't think for a second there was another way with them.

The only way to make it was to make sure as many people could survive as possible.

[What a grim reality.]

Well, you're definitely a survivor.