Liir allowed himself to imitate the reptile, letting his nose withdraw into stumps, parts of his skin to scale over. It'll take a minute for him to adjust and understand the signals it's sending him.

"You're just sharing my consciousness for a bit. I think that's what my power does, anyway. That's why it sounds to me like you're speaking English, not some kind of...well, I guess you'd call it a forked tongue."

Liir's resemblance in personality to a middle aged man is heightened by the dad joke.