"I feel okay except not remembering before."

She nods. "Okay, that's promising. Maybe you'll start remembering after a while."

"That sounds like it would be weird, to start all of a sudden."

"It would probably be very weird, yeah. I think sometimes it comes back in bits so eventually you have most of everything back, but that would also be a bit weird."

"What if I don't do either kind of remembering?"

"Then you'd make memories from the time when you woke up, onwards."

"Here?" asks the child.

"If we can't find your parents and you want to stay here, with me - yes."

"You seem nice."

"I don't know if my parents are nice."

"If they aren't, and I knew it, I would not return you to them."

"Well, you could wait and not have a name for a while and see if the police can find it out for you, or you could pick a name. That could be confusing if they did find it, though."

"I don't remember any names that are except yours."

"I would help," says Lynn, amused. "Either by getting you a book with lots of names in it, or by naming as many names as I know, or by picking a name that I like and seeing if you like it, too."

"What ones do you like?"

"Irene, Jasmine, Astrid, Danielle, and Phoebe. Of names that I can think of at the top of my head for girls, anyway."

"I don't think I like Jasmine. The others are okay."

Lynn snorts. "Okay, then - Astrid? Would you like me to call you that until we figure out your given name?"

"Okay."

"What's police?"

"Oh, okay. Do you have things to read?"