joly blinks at that--he's never really noticed his own habit-- and then laughs a little. " I was just trying to remember. Well, what that version of me remembered. About Musichetta,and the daemons, but--mm." But his memory keeps getting fuzzy about everything beyond Milliways, and the people he talked to in Milliways. And the untranslatable experience of the daemons, and the odd sensations of their interactions with each other, and with other people--

He fidgets a moment. "...have I been very slow for very long?"