Jinn slowed his steps and, when he was close enough for the other man to notice him, he stopped. "Hello." Some of the other residents had been quick to say they remembered him. Others had been less forthcoming.
It was equally possible that this man didn't know him, had never known him; if anything, it would be a relief from the constant confusion of being told he had done this or that, good or bad. Perhaps that was why Jinn asked, "Aren't you cold?"