He can tell immediately that he's made a mistake with the way she breathes, like she's preparing herself for something. Nate perpetually has his foot in his mouth but he's already trying to work out ways to extract it as she speaks. He came here to be her friend, not to make her talk about thing she doesn't want to.

Nate's heard of people leaving the city but he's never really heard of them coming back. The idea that Daryl has come back without his memories, maybe a different person to the one he was when he left, is unsettling. Building a life with someone and having to watch them disappear is bad enough, but having them come back with no memory of it? Nate's not sure he could handle it.

"He'll come around," he says, because it's easier to focus on that than the prospect of what this city can do to their lives. Nate has never liked being someone else's plaything, and he's getting the feeling that that's all they are, here. "Must be weird for him, too."