“Its okay,” he said and gave Markus a slow smile. “It happened. That'll teach me to go exploring by myself, far away from the pod, though... I guess if anyone else had been there, they might have been captured, too..”
He lightly pinched the bridge of his nose with two fingers as he placed his memories of the event in rapid reply, looking for the umpteenth time for a reason he had suffered amnesia. It was probably a combination of all the things he had mentioned to his friend, though he suspected shock and the blows to the head were high on the list of 'suspects'.
“They stripped me, too, as part of the torture, probably to humiliate me, but of course, I have no problem being naked.” He removed his fingers and sighed. “I don't miss the baseball bat. No idea why someone on a fishing trawler had a baseball bat. Maybe they beat up the new crew members as part of some initiation or something...”
Kai cleared his throat. “Anyway, not something to dwell on with such nice weather...”