Maybe that was the wrong order to start in with the reveals. Then again, there probably isn't a good order.
"First we were in a place called the City, for... well, five years, almost. We still don't really know how or why we got there, but we did. It pulled all kinds of people in from all different places and times. Eventually, though, um... they made us leave. And everyone went through these doors to other worlds. Some of them went home, but we-- we ended up here."
Then he gets out of bed, out of the other side, now that Neil has stepped back.
"But I don't think you really forgot, not exactly. I think, um... the same way it pulls people from different times, it somehow changed when you were from. This sort of thing happened before, too, in the City. They were called curses there."