[... why does no one tell him these things? What is wrong with all of them?]

Jean was unconscious for a month. We had no idea until Krieg brought him back here... but nothing could wake him up.

[A hand through his hair -- the patented "I'm Uncomfortable" Shiro gesture.] For me, it was only a week. I... thought I got sent home.

I thought I was gone for months. I thought I was back, I thought... [He thought he'd never left at all. Hadn't remembered being here, hadn't remembered anything from this place. And he's tried with everything he has not to think about that.]