"In a place... before." He squints at her and tries to reason with what he already knows. She looked about his age--they couldn't have met when he was younger, and he would remember her if he'd known her in the past two years. (Wouldn't he? Unless there were memories fragmented from his time too, somehow--but he didn't think Namine had a reason to do that. Not that he'd know...)

"I don't remember you."

The unspoken 'why?' on his tongue stopped him from attacking.