He shook his head and tried to move closer to her, but he was still too sore and too weak to manage much. "Years. I've been gone for years. I was ten again, and I remembered everything... Am I really here? This is real?" The 'You're real?' went unspoken, but it was very obviously being asked.
He tried to sit up after that, but it wasn't happening. He needed both arms for that, and he wasn't letting go of Sunila any time soon if he had any say in things.