No, that's not what I meant! [He's firm this time, unlike when he stumbled through inquiring about her stay.] You were just...
["So far gone," he wants to say. "It was scary," he wants to say. He has the impression she could take those words and stab him with them, though he can't put his finger on why.]
... What happened after I lost track of you?
[Doppio genuinely wants to know, even if it hadn't occurred to him to ask until now. How does someone go from not even remembering when and where they are, to... just... normal again, able to recall the past and understand the present and to let them coexist? He isn't surprised the Boss could do it; Doppio is sure he's relived his deaths many, many times outside of the Pale Fog, and he only needed a little help to find his footing again. But Trish... Did someone else come for her? Did she do it all by herself? How?
As for Doppio himself, he didn't have to forget this time. He simply refused to remember. He ran from the fire, he left the pickax behind, he walked past the sunny streets of Sardinia without fail, and when he found someone willing to help him and the Boss and then saw the kind eyes of a long dead man smiling at him behind her, he ran again. All he had to do was run until he could find the Boss and run away with him. It was straightforward.
... Come to think of it, though, there's something he can't quite seem to remember. Not clearly.
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["So far gone," he wants to say. "It was scary," he wants to say. He has the impression she could take those words and stab him with them, though he can't put his finger on why.]
... What happened after I lost track of you?
[Doppio genuinely wants to know, even if it hadn't occurred to him to ask until now. How does someone go from not even remembering when and where they are, to... just... normal again, able to recall the past and understand the present and to let them coexist? He isn't surprised the Boss could do it; Doppio is sure he's relived his deaths many, many times outside of the Pale Fog, and he only needed a little help to find his footing again. But Trish... Did someone else come for her? Did she do it all by herself? How?
As for Doppio himself, he didn't have to forget this time. He simply refused to remember. He ran from the fire, he left the pickax behind, he walked past the sunny streets of Sardinia without fail, and when he found someone willing to help him and the Boss and then saw the kind eyes of a long dead man smiling at him behind her, he ran again. All he had to do was run until he could find the Boss and run away with him. It was straightforward.... Come to think of it, though, there's something he can't quite seem to remember. Not clearly.
Why did he run towards Trish?]