"Maxed out my credit card." An unfortunate side effect of eating out all the time, and eating unhealthy amounts. Howard's trying to put some weight back on his starved body before the next arena, and there is the fact that food is a comfort. "I got, um. I got cut up by a guy last arena, and I'm avoiding him, so that's why I'm not at the training center."

He tries to sound like that doesn't deeply bother him, but his face goes a shade pale remembering it. He keeps fiddling with the napkin and staring at the tabletop, the swirls in the coffee.