Hm, there is some good news to that at least. If the memory loss is due to the Trench it's more than likely you'll get those memories back as time goes on. It eh... you know how this place is, with the 'mental tests.' [he doesn't roll his eyes but the tone is there.] This memory loss may very well be the same.

[and he nods. demi-humans, it's an interesting phrase for it. not wholly inhuman but not fully, at least the implication. so far the man seems like any other human, though maybe there were others who could see deeper.]

Is there anything about yourself you noticed as odd compared to other sleepers? Eating more or less, sleeping more or less, things of that nature?

[and a pause before,] I have seen a few. Even in my own world there are other races who are humaniod but not human. Here though... hm. There are people born of gods, or with animal features- vampires, that's come up a few times. I met one boy who called himself an angel, unironically. Regardless, humanity may be the typical species but hardly the only.