"And does it feel like that to be by the ocean, too?" Caleb asks, curious about this new Gabe, this altered boy from the one he used to sing with in Choir and surreptitiously steal looks at during sermons. He curls a long lock of his own hair around a finger, thinking about how he's different, too. Except his is mostly self-made. Gabe's has apparently been there all along.

Either that, or he got bit by a radioactive otter.