"A little of column A, a little of column C," he answers, managing a shrug. "I'm not ready to fall over or anything, it's just--you know when you sleep too much? Or you've been sick for awhile, and you just start getting back to your life?"

Crawling out of the fountain had been harder than the first time, and not because of the cold. There's a general ache, like it's the first activity he's had in ages. Not that he'd been in the greatest shape, but he'd been making hikes with Mark and Karen before this. "Probably related to all of this," he adds, gesturing to the new length of hair framing his face.