A brief flicker of familiarity came to him, as though this very moment had already occurred, but he paid it little attention and continued on.

Just then a premonition, not a déjà vu, or maybe a déjà vu—Ray couldn’t decide what it was, so he just labeled it a feeling. A brief flicker of familiarity came to him, as though this very moment had already occurred, but he paid it little attention and continued on.