[ Jim has a feeling this woman, whoever she is, likely would beat him to the ground until he was six feet under if he didn't handle this properly, but also— he's not some coward, and he'll own up at least in part to what happened here. So. Here he is.

... also good luck to him. ]

What happened wasn't intentional on anyone's part. I don't know if you've been keeping up with the developments, but the outbreak was caused by a unique pollen that can be found beyond the wall. I led a team out there in search of a group of scientists a while back— they'd been affected the same way, and we had no idea what had caused it. Inadvertently, we brought along with us some remnants of that pollen, as well as a few samples of the plant, although they were contained safely. It was never my intention to spread that contamination to the Quarantine, and at the time we didn't even know what had caused the memory loss, but for what part I took in it, I am sorry.

[ He pauses, takes a slow breath. ] But it wasn't purposeful. And I would have reversed it immediately if I could, but I don't know how to do that, not yet at least.


( ooc: I am sorry this is so late, you can assume he got back to her whenever the cause of the memory loss was discovered! )