"You're right... on some accounts. I've been feeling pieces of my memory leaving me... and I've been losing tracks of time. There have been moments when I was walking down the street and I'll have been standing there for hours without realizing it... but I remember every bit about what happened that day. It was fucked up... the car came out of nowhere and just..." He took a breath.
Try to keep it together, Kartahn...
"...there was so much blood. I couldn't see any part of... of her... except for her leg... it protruded out from under the car..." He shook his head once more. "I don't know how many times it took to save her... felt like I was trying for decades, but when I came to I realized only a few minutes had passed in real time..."
A quiet pause. Kartahn didn't know what else to say. He hoped the other boy would interject and disrupt the cold silence.