[ Of the things the strange storekeeper is saying, Yoshiki should be more affected by the practical one. Her prediction is so accurate that he almost expects her to come right and say that she's not from this town or its time either.

But it's where her prediction goes into advice that catches him up short, his fingers pressing into the clinging plastic wrap on the first box he picked up. ]

Sometimes you can't get it back for anything.

[ If the store had any other customers in it, any other real noise, his soft statement might be lost before it ever gets to her. If there were any other customers, he probably wouldn't have said it at all.

It comes over him again, the homesickness. He only had it for a person before, but now he also has it for a place, a time. He ducks his head and closes his eyes. ]

...that something that happened to you? Wishing you'd kept your old CD player.

[ If she's only making predictions, she'll think he's speaking metaphorically. If she's not - if she's not, maybe he'll find out. ]