Sentence:  He turned and steered his course toward some lights clustered at the end of the street. They proved farther away than he had anticipated, and after a long quest he came to the conclusion that his eyes had been mysteriously removed from their proper places and had been <WSD>reset</WSD> on either side of his head like those of a bird. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To adjust; to set or position differently.