"I'm not a ghost." Ren tried to explain. "Was not right word?"
He was still trying with this, but maybe his language had slipped somewhere? It was probably when he said 'another' that that happened. It was ok though, since Willie seemed to understand. The parts of what Willie said that Ren did get messed with his head though. Here was a ghost from the 1980s that was also from Ren's future, what? It made a weird sort of sense though, given Willie's lack of need to perceive time the way the living did.
"I came here a few days ago. It was... Nov - Novemu- juuichigatsu 2017."