Hm. Rhea'li's sense of time is not always the best (when one is always wandering, those schedule is he on but his own?), so the question gives him pause.

"Nay, it has been some months since I first set foot upon this star." A flick of his tail as he glances aside. "...My apologies for leaving without giving you a way of sending word."

It's not often he feels bad about simply disappearing from peoples' lives. But...