"Not... particularly." He takes a moment to sort of assess himself, but he doesn't feel strange or sore at all. That's not a huge indicator of anything, he doesn't think - when everyone was randomly shrinking down to child-sized, it wasn't like that was an inherently uncomfortable process, for example. He hadn't kept his memories of Havenwell for that, though, so it's probably not... the exact same thing.

A spot of cozy contact usually helps with that kind of weirdness, so perhaps that scoop would be a fruitful move in the long run? Shinji's more than willing to keep his arms loosely draped around the other boy, at any rate.

"I didn't notice anything different earlier, either. Yesterday I was the same as always, right?" As far as he knew, surely Kai's second opinion on that would be valuable.