Others' Island (spoilers all books incl RWC)

[Nuytsia]

Yeah that was one of the sticking points I came up against - how the serpents 'get' their memories in the first place.
But actually having just read your post it only now occurs to me that maybe that's what She Who Remembers was supposed to do - give the memories to the newly hatched serpents *before* they left 'Others Island'.
I'm not sure exactly how this works - maybe one serpent, after hatching and having got its memories from the previous SWR is actually *supposed* to stay put at Others Island rather than roaming the seas and going to form a cocoon (or maybe they go form the coccoon after passing on memories to a serpent successor).
This may well have happened, as it seems the serpents did HAVE their memories at first, they just forgot over time? So in this special case SWR had to go seek them out to re-tell them their memories. (presumably even hers were diminished due to the long time period)
Yes, they're in trouble now come next egg hatching! Someone should have stayed serpent! (then again this could all be bunkum. You'd think Tintaglia or SWR would have mentioned it)
Maybe that's what secretly happened to Shreever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!