[Rose blinks again, pursing her lips as she tries to find the most delicate way to phrase the question that is practically begging to be asked.]

I... assume then you are from some alternate timeline? Because I am from past that point in my own timeline, but the have no memory of ever having amnesia. Though, I suppose that would be quite ironic, would it not?

[She frowns quietly.]

You truly do keep your memories in your knitting bag?

[She had hoped it was a joke.]