Eventually she finds him a studio that's two bus stops away that he can move into the next day.

Oh good.

He finds the chance to talk to Lianelle in private when he's moving in.

It's a somewhat awkward conversation.

"I lost some memories of Lucian too," Lianelle says to May afterwards.

"Oh no, how much?"

"Lots of things that weren't related to fighting the Magyar, I think. He was acting like we were really close friends and I didn't remember him quite like that and said so and then he made a face and. Turns out that we were."

"I... had also formed the impression that you were really close friends, he's the only person from before you ever talk about."

"I thought he'd enjoy the future a lot... and I guess I don't have memories of closer friends than him, but almost all I remember about him is working together against the Magyar."

"You don't seem like the kind of person who just wouldn't have friends. I am, but not you."

"I remember friends, just... I was moving around a lot so I didn't have many that were very close...or, that's what I remember anyways."

"I wonder... why you remember the specific things you remember."

"I think I might remember all the fighting."

"...is that it?"

"No, I can remember some other things - my family, traveling, growing up, getting kicked out of places, sleeping with people... but there's a lot of fighting."

"Why your family and not your wife?"

"I wasn't very close with my family..."

"So it's definitely not a - neutral application of the usual process of forgetting stuff as it gets longer ago and less salient..."

"Yeah."

"Any guesses based on other spirits you've met?"

"I....hrm.... Oh. I think it might be that spirits tend to remember the things their legend is about?"

"...and perhaps you were not very public with your wife and were not having all your friendship-establishing moments in front of passing troubadors."

"Yeah... there's nothing about her on Wikipedia."

Nod.

Hug.

"I really don't want to just be someone who's done a bunch of fighting."

"Yeah. I don't know why the Spring won't fill in your memories. I think it has to be something about you being a spirit but I don't know other spirits to compare."

"Did you check if you can fill in the memories of the other champions we fought against?"