Your captain, and also part-time friend, has grown. And when I say that he has grown, he has really GROWN. Quite quickly at that. And of course, damn it, he wanted to take revenge on you for all the jokes you made in his direction because of his height. And he could afford it because he was taller than you.

“Oh, is it just me, or have you shrunk a little?”

he said as coldly as always, making it difficult to tell whether he was joking or not.