[The description of the inside of AM is almost enough to set Atem off again. He has to brush past it, not think about it, tuck it away in a deep dark part of him, and focus on the now, on what needs to be addressed -- on what can be changed. He's breathing fast, which doesn't help the dizziness.]

I thought...!

[Okay. Okay, it is his memories that are wrong. What Ryou's describing...it's closer to what Atem had imagined had happened, that it was there but not enough. Not for that situation.

He doesn't address the last part. Not yet. He's still reeling, from the confirmation, that...]

I thought...you said you didn't. Didn't have them. Couldn't use them. I remember you -- I -- I remember me saying, out loud, that you didn't -- c-confirming it. I don't--

[Breathe breathe breathebreathebreathe, his fingers dig into his hair, hard enough to pull.]

I don't know why -- my memories are wrong. But they -- but they were! That...that's something I didn't know could happen, I -- my memory has always been good, it's never -- never been this wrong, a-about something so important...!

[His head's spinning. He has to get it back under control. But how...?

It is terrifying, that his mind can trick him like this, this badly. There are a lot of things that Atem is scared of, and this is a new one.]