Very soon after Liir started explaining, Chad had decided to move over a little closer, to have a seat in his usual chair (the sturdy one), so that he could listen better. He'd just eat the cereal dry; it was still good that way, and he wanted to give Liir the kind of attention that Liir's description seemed to be asking for.

And he felt really, really bad over the fact that he wasn't sure if he got it. All that stuff sounded like just more information to him. That look that Liir gave him with the conclusion, though, killed anything inside Chad that might have wanted to point it out in argument.

Instead, after being quiet for a moment, he just asked, "If you did lose your memory, though, how would you know how to use the crystal to get it back?"

It was a good question, he thought, a practical one that answered a tangible question, which was much more his area than all the theoretical things Liir was talking about.