[ Oh? His genuine curiosity takes her by surprise, as does the similarity — although, having that much in common for the latter might explain the former. At the question, she purses her lips, thinking over the different people she's met, and what changes she's witnessed. ]

I can't think of anyone I know that... changed so drastically from one day to the next. And nobody who's said anything like that. But for me, I guess it's more accurate to say it came in... two stages. The first one was about a month after I arrived — when everyone else who arrived with me started their changes, too — but it was all... internal stuff? I still looked normal, but my vision got a little better, and I could use magic, and the... monster's hunger started to grow. Scales would grow if I burned myself somewhere, so I had...

[ She gestures to the middle of each of her lower arms, and the ribbon-like spirals of red against her lighter flesh. ]

...a little bit right here. Everything else came later. The scales, the wings, the tail, the feet, the teeth, the... way my eyes look now, all of that happened over a couple of hours.