"I guess that's about as good as - makes sense while you still don't remember him."

"Yeah, I thought so. He wanted to quiz me, figure out if I seemed Alyish in how I talked even if I didn't recall all the facts."

"Does he think so?"

"Yes, because I do."

"Well. I am glad he knows you are alive and can occasionally experience happiness again, and it must be - vindicating - to have it clear -"

"And I did invent storks. And he has been making new ones, he does a couple a week, he's got a scribe for the instructions and just has to make the chassis."

"Oooooh! Congratulations on inventing storks!!"

"Thanks!"

Kiss.

Kiss!!!

"I'm so glad he did not decide to be mad about posthumous cheating. He just wanted to know that I'm okay and happy."

"He seems like a very good person who has just been having absolutely no nice things for twenty years."

"It's very flattering and sad!"

"Well. Luckily you are alive."

"I am!"

"And you're the stork person, that makes lots of things easier! We can start assembly-line-ing them as soon as we have assembly lines."

"Yep.

Oh, and - he had all Aly's notes."

"Oooooohhhh."

"I didn't take them all - seemed mean - I took about half, I can go back for the rest sometime."

"That'd include stuff about him, right -"

"I took the first half. So no. I asked if he wanted me caught up - he said it should be however I wanted it - I think it'd be weird to start with notes-based understanding without remembering anything."

"That makes sense."

"Once I have any dreams about him to speak of I'll get the second half."

"Makes sense to me."