[ So they're not on the same page.

Noctis feels a very slight, extremely weak glimmer of hope. Hope that he's just having these tormenting nightmares because that's just the story of his life. That this "past" Prompto brings up so much is not as bad as his own mind is making it out to be. That's Ardyn is only acting weird because he's perceiving it in a way that blows shit out of proportion and everything is okay.

That hope is not strong enough to comfort him. Something tells him he's just not recalling the same things yet. And it makes this situation far worse than it already was. Simply in knowing he has to out and say it because it feels real. ]

I don't...

[ He doesn't want to tell him this. But the part that's attached forces him. Noctis sharply inhales through his nose, turning his gaze away from Ardyn. ]

I don't know anything about her. Just that I've seen her in nearly every single... "Memory" that's popped up.

There's water. Some... Gigantic sea snake or something. We get thrown apart.

[ His lips purse. Please just let him be crazy. ]

And the last thing I see before everything goes black is you stabbing her.