He hadn't been paying enough attention to the details of the change to notice, obviously. He's been more focused on the fact that someone else (in this case, an entirely unknown entity) had exerted control over him again. He doesn't yield easily, and particularly not to threats. Instead of interacting with the rest of the group, he'd retreated to his house, only coming out to find food.

"I want to find one of those pods, and they're too far to go in a day." So he'll need to do some camping.