"I don't mean to say that it wasn't years on your end," Padparadscha offers gently. There's no need to make him feel less in touch with reality than he seems to already, but if it's not explained then he's just going to encounter it when he meets up with his family again regardless.

"But you have been brought back only months after you initially vanished from the perspective of the people here. It is an unusual circumstance, but so are many things in this world."