"Well what do you think it is?" He snaps back, holding his hands up to inspect them. Sure looks like blue reptilian scales to him. Maybe he's becoming a really big lizard, but honestly he doesn't care about semantics right now. Not only does this hurt pretty constantly, it's making it difficult to do things.

It's very hard to use a touchscreen tablet with claws.

"Were? So some people have transformed and are better now?"

He doesn't recoil, but has Rosinante's smile always basically split his head in two? That is very unsettling.