"I…" Sezel hesitated for a moment. "I don't know what you are talking about," he said, but his voice, for the first time since they had entered this strange, walled-off world, was laced with a hint of doubt.
Mari didn't say anything. She simply wiped her tears clean with the back of her small hand and went silent, her small shoulders slumping. Sezel lingered for a few seconds, his gaze fixed on the small, crying girl, before he decided to give up on asking, to give up on the strange, unsettling feeling that was coiling in his gut, and continue what he had come here to do.
'Am I acting weird?' he thought, his mind replaying his actions, his words, searching for some sign of what he used to be. 'Probably no, I think Mari is just afraid.'
