[He immediately perks up because Greg knows teenage boy language. He's already referencing things that sound familiar, that are almost in his frame of reference.]

[Also he sounds like a dad. Some people just sound that way. Just like people like Hal sound uncle-ey and people like Hiccup sound brotherly. Greg sounds dadly. Like his and his sister's dad.]

The No Home Boys...is that like the Sibling Brothers Mysteries? I used to read the Sibling Brothers Mysteries [His eyes dart back and forth slightly. Unsure.] I think.

[He's still sorting a lot of his memories out. They gave him a lot of false ones, twisted a lot of them to be something they weren't. Darker and more painful. Aven and the telepaths undid the absolute worst of it but they said he was going to need more treatments to bring true clarity.]

[As it stands, all the bad has been dismantled, but all the good is still...fuzzy. He knows the bad isn't true but isn't sure what of the good is.]

It's sssoft. Reading books is soft and not the same as crushing your enemies? So it's a little fuzzy. But I'm pretty sure I read them before I didn't read them.

[He's pretty sure they were in the real memories under the false ones that they're still dismantling and removing in his treatments.]