"I r-r-ruh-" Bill managed, and then the word was gone. He made a quiet noise of frustration at the same time as he made a strange little gesture with his hand, as if he was trying to pluck the word out of the air. Deflect and switch. "I know when that wuh-was," he came up with, and it mostly worked, he thought. So he smiled. This was cool.
He sat down on the couch when Abra signaled for him to do so, and then nodded at her instructions. Closing his eyes again, he thought back on how long he'd known Eddie, how close they'd been back in Derry and how fantastic it was that he was here on the station now. Even if he himself wasn't quite the Bill that Eddie and Richie remembered, they were all still best friends. With that in mind, he tried again. (eddie, it's bill. let me know if you can hear me.)