"It's just something I was born with. My mother could have made the change permanent, reshaped you. Me, I can just imitate and communicate."

What a strange conversation to be having with an animal he'd last seen with his head covered in ice packs and eight heat lamps pointed at him. Speaking of...

"Sorry about last time, by the way. That must have gotten very old very fast."

He'd needed contact with the creature to maintain the physical changes, the same way he needed contact with a person to view their memories.