"Probably not. I mean, if shyness was the problem, wouldn't you have ditched yours?"

[Not that he really wanted her to. Figuring out identities was sort of a thing he reserved for the bad guys. And, admittedly, something he was pretty awful at.]

"As for the question, well...about a year, now? Maybe more? I don't know. I wore it while I was here, and I was here for a while, but time moves differently while we're turtle-surfing and I didn't really bother keeping track."

[Other than using a wall calendar he made himself and a home-made sundial, but nobody needed to know he'd been that homesick.]