The instinct to make this kid -- this Rylee -- prove himself worthy of Charlie was somewhat overridden when the boy mentioned that he'd been more concerned about whether or not she was all right than what happened to him. In fact, Elias considered this revelation almost as important as the further confirmation that there had, indeed, been some creature involved in the happenings the night of the blackout.
He mentally compared Charlie's and Rylee's descriptions of their experiences with his own. Each of them had been affected with a single ailment centered on a single sense -- for himself, sight; for her, hearing, and for Rylee, touch. But Charlie had made no mention of a strange creature. And Rylee had made no mention of --
"Did you seem to experience a memory that both was and was not your own?"