I suppose I ought to have asked. [She pulls a face at herself. She should have asked, but seeing Kaneki behaving like that had thrown her so off her stride the thought had gone straight out of her mind.]

But I didn't recognise him either, at first. He wasn't someone I expected to find crying out for rescue.

[And she had been unsure, of course...]

I couldn't just leave him there. Not even knowing who he was. He kept saying he wasn't 'him'.