That's what happened when you spent better part of a year - at least in relative time - fighting and running from video game monsters. His muscles were much more defined than they'd been in October and his shirts, bought over the summer, clung to his arms and chest in a way they hadn't before.

"Sorry for vanishing. Uh. Again," he said, a little lamely. "Sucked into a video game for a few months. It was a whole...thing."