Chapter 349: Camping on Barren Rock
Jonas could tell that there was something off about Elin when he found her, but he thought it might have just been her dealing with the effects of walking through this barren area of the mountains.
Even though this area felt weird to him as well.
However, when she asked him what his name was, he knew that things were worse than he'd expected. As he'd first thought that the memory issues with the others had just been limited to them. Yet as he spoke to Elin, he had a suspicion that whatever had happened to the others had essentially erased everything about Elin from her mind.
Or at least everything that pertained to Elin's memories about herself.
"Don't worry about my name," Jonas replied, wondering if giving Elin his actual name would create a bridge of whatever had happened to her to spread to him. "If you need to call me something, just go with 'J,' alright?"
Elin looked at him for a minute before nodding slowly. He had a feeling she didn't really understand what he was getting at, but he couldn't see how it could be helped given the circumstances. Including with what he knew that he was certain she didn't.
"Okay," she murmured, looking around them. "Um, where are we going from here?"
Jonas wondered if it was her lack of memory that she was essentially asking him to take the lead, or if it was because he was one of two in their group that typically took the lead. While she didn't have her memories, Jonas suspected that Elin still at least had her habits and basic personality that she would still fall into when she had the opportunity.
"Well, I was thinking we could take a look at that wagon," he replied, wondering again what that wagon was doing there in the first place. Especially with how it didn't even look like the wagon had anything to have pulled it to this location in the first place.