Said india-rubber boy was delayed on the way to the Tower because he'd gotten lost in his own imagination, a fantasy of ninja-eqsue proportions that meant that he had to get to the Tower by moving from statue to statue to vase to picture frame to statue, trying to leap from one to the other and failing most of the time.
He remembered late that he was supposed to be on time to meet Kevin and ran the rest of the way, almost colliding into the boy. "Oh!" he yelped, startled as he skidded to a halt inches away from collision. "Hi!" he greeted with a breathless grin. "You okay?"