[It's an interesting way to word whatever is happening here: suffering from an affliction. So, too, does it speak to Yu's feeling about the situation. Whatever is happening, he doesn't want it. It's intruding on his normal life in this pleasant little town. The things he's seen are not pretty: monsters, nightmares, fights to the death or near-death. Creatures so terrifying he doesn't want them to exist in any world.

It's no comfort to know that he's not alone in this. Instead, it makes everything feel more ominous, like something irreversible is happening.]

A girl I don't recognize, [he says, thoughtful, fingers tapping against the card in his hand.] But it was like I knew her. As if we had been friends...

[Schoolmates, in an unfamiliar place. He had been out of place, there. New. Nothing like Aldrip, filled with a feeling of belonging. He lifts his eyes again, looking at Claude.]

Is that anything like what you've seen?