Not terribly helpful, no— in fact, I hadn't thought much of it beyond the strangeness of its existence until recently.

[Distressed... isn't an inaccurate way to put it, he decides. He thinks back to his conversation with Rin, what the two of them had hypothesized his carrying this device might mean. He'd done some more prodding since then, and a few more partial memories had surfaced over time, as well— nothing terribly revealing, but enough to confirm that his guess at having been somewhere else between here and Ivalice was likely correct.]

Bits and pieces of things are beginning to add up. This, memories that seem just out of reach— I'm almost certain now that this isn't the first time I've been pulled away from Ivalice.

[There's more to what he'd like to tell her, but one step at a time.]