"People on the outside looking in and trying to explain never have the right answers." He was silent for a brief moment, brow creasing before he added: "Not having the right questions doesn't help, either."

And he knew for a fact that he didn't have those, though he was trying. The things that he did remember didn't fit together quite right, and he knew there were huge pieces missing, but didn't know what to ask about to be able to fill them in and secure the fragments that he did have into place.