[ she says his name, and it feels like an electric shock goes down his spine.
she knows him. she knows him. she expects him to recognize her, and he's...what? he doesn't feel nothing. he feels the yawning chasm of emptiness more than he ever has before, the gap where something should be, used to be, has to be. he looks at her and feels so viscerally that there is something important that's been ripped out of him. that someone he should know, someone he should know is standing in front of him, and it should mean something, and it can't because a goddess stole his memories and his life and his identity for some greater good. ]
I...
[ for just a moment, her expression is blinding; and then it begins to collapse into uncertainty. disappointment.
(it feels horribly familiar, that expression. how often, he wonders, has he disappointed people? just based on this moment, just based on the last week or so, he has to think that the answer is frequently.)
and by the time she speaks again she sounds stern and angry, she sounds like he's wronged her and she's come to collect, she sounds —
no.
she sounds upset. except, she doesn't. but if he knows his own name, he knows that she sounds upset. ]
I'm sorry. [ holds his hands up, drops them, unsure what to do with them. ] I still can't remember much. Do I...
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she knows him. she knows him. she expects him to recognize her, and he's...what? he doesn't feel nothing. he feels the yawning chasm of emptiness more than he ever has before, the gap where something should be, used to be, has to be. he looks at her and feels so viscerally that there is something important that's been ripped out of him. that someone he should know, someone he should know is standing in front of him, and it should mean something, and it can't because a goddess stole his memories and his life and his identity for some greater good. ]
I...
[ for just a moment, her expression is blinding; and then it begins to collapse into uncertainty. disappointment.
(it feels horribly familiar, that expression. how often, he wonders, has he disappointed people? just based on this moment, just based on the last week or so, he has to think that the answer is frequently.)
and by the time she speaks again she sounds stern and angry, she sounds like he's wronged her and she's come to collect, she sounds —
no.
she sounds upset. except, she doesn't. but if he knows his own name, he knows that she sounds upset. ]
I'm sorry. [ holds his hands up, drops them, unsure what to do with them. ] I still can't remember much. Do I...
[ diffident, ]
We do know each other. Right?