[ .. a human. she's a human. it's.. like him, kind of. only she seems to remember everything, and he definitely doesn't and isn't sure he wants to. ]

It's.. why I was, uh.. self-medicating. I was.. seeing things, hearing things. I thought I was hallucinating, and nothing else was helping, and it was all.. impossible.

[ he pushes a few loose strands of hair behind his ear, frowning uncertainly. ] Michael.. found me. He usually sticks close, because I.. they're not hallucinations, it's my brain trying to.. make sense of what I'm supposed to be able to perceive. He's able to help with it some.