He's trying to not look down at himself so he can pretend he's wearing anything but what he is. Just concentrating on the fact his clothes are clean and smell nice, ignore the whole Hawaiian theme they've got going on.

"Yeah. The orchard is decimated too. It looks ... depressing." Almost like a symbol for what's happening with them. There goes part of the food supply to build boats to try and retrieve some magical thing that no one knows if it exists or not. "At least this is nice and green. Kind of peaceful. The way memorials should be."

He tucks his thumbs into his pockets, looking elsewhere. "Did everything disappear for a while for you too? A few days ago?"

Please tell him he's not the only one, right now it seems like a bad hallucination.