[As odd as it is to see himself from an outsider's point of view, they do at least agree on this much.]

I wasn't expecting your help, if that's what you're asking. I'm already better than I was.

[His physical reality no longer matching the cognition of not existing helped. He simply had to take the time to recover from the side effects, it seemed.]

It's really quite simple - I was curious. After everything you'd told me, do you really think I wouldn't be? And now we can both see that even if someone else owned the same apartment, that this is mine. [Although, there's a thought. He goes into a thinking pose, hand on chin, without realising.] I wonder if the place would reflect the state it's in now, or the state it would be in then, if I came back here after returning to the past?