"I remember..." he begins, but pauses. "I remember my life. There are some things that are clearer to me than others, just like thinking back on my life here and now. But sometimes I dream, and it's clearer than any memory could be. It's like I'm there." He looks down at his now half-full coffee cup. "The first thing I remembered, if you can really call it remembering when it's more of a feeling than a thought, was that I hadn't completed my service to my king."