"Please, call me Dankovsky." He says with a smile. Doc is WAY too informal, "I don't think I notice at first, making knowing exactly when I lose a memory hard to track. Truthfully, I am normally reminiscing about my life, and I realize there's a hole there, where information aught to be. Or at least that is how I experience the phenomenon."

First his reason for coming to that town, and then his reason that he found, as being forced to stay was too painful otherwise... he's forgotten both. Daniil wonders if other people have patterns to their memory loss or if that's just him, but, well, he's not going to burden a child with that!

"And that is a sound hypothesis, young man!" He says, beaming, "I certainly hope that's not the case, but perhaps we could become just that if we misstep in some way. The truth of the matter remains to be seen."