Jason wasn’t sure what made him decide to try to talk to the boy at the zoo. He had a rule to not try to make friends. With his condition, it was pretty hopeless. Any conversation tending to just go in circles until the other person gave up in frustration.

But this seemed to be different. Jason and the boy were the only two people by the elephant enclosure. He found it ironic, being drawn to the elephants. The boy who can’t remember and the animal that never forgets, a cosmic joke of a pairing.