[He nodded at the question of whether he knew Huo.] We've spoken over the journals once, I think.

[He wasn't at all surprised that she found him familiar in the same way she found the man she had turned into. He had seemed rather familiar to Gene as well. If they came from a similar background, it only made sense that they would know the same people. But as it was with her and Aim, his knowledge of her involvement in a life like his was academic, and all his personal experience with her came from his time in the Sphere. Looking at her expression, it seemed almost... expectant. He was missing something here, he knew it. But damned if he had any clue what it was.

Still, what he could do was help her figure this out with what little he did know. He swallowed a little, then parsed out what he knew of their situation.]

Well... I know that I've seen the man you turned into before. It was in this group portrait from someone else's birth dream, and he was standing next to other people from our world who have been here before. That makes me think he was part of the crew we talked about before. [The number in the portrait fit the numbers mentioned by Tieria in Adstringendum, after all.] So... do you think the girl was just as close to the group?

[Logically, a child should not be in the same situation as the rest of them. But for whatever reason, the idea didn't seem entirely foreign.]