[ When it's clear Wilhelm isn't going to run blindly anymore Kahlil lets his hand drop from the boy's shoulder. And when Wilhelm asks the obvious next question to someone admitting something so bizarre, he doesn't immediately answer. There's a pause while he tries to cobble together some short way to explain this, without sounding insane.

It's not easy, and he's probably not entirely successful. ]

It's something that happened to me before I came to Abraxas. It... took me a while to understand, but somehow I have the memories of another version of me. [ A pause, then he deadpans: ]

It's exactly as confusing as it sounds. [ Another pause. ] I haven't told many people.

[ For the obvious reason that explaining it makes him sound like a crazy person. But also because the events leading up to these memories burned into his mind isn't something he wants widely known.

There's something else, too. Because Wilhelm had once confided in him Sometimes I feel like it was a mistake, that it happened to him instead of me. And at the time he could only say that there were no mistakes in that way.

The truth is, he's known intimately what it's like to find out there's a 'better' version of your life out there. ]