[It does help. Nadine's mind is no longer screaming at her that she's seeing something she can't be seeing.

She does manage to offer a small smile, not wanting to make him feel awkward or self concious. It's not like it's his fault, this is just a case of culture shock. Really intense culture shock.]

I'm gonna have to take your word on that, I've never met an Inkfish before. Or anyone who wasn't basically human, before I came here.

[Randall is not, she's certain, human. But he looks human and while she's dimly aware he can do all sorts of things like change his shape, she's never seen it. He's always appeared to her as just Randall, a tall and handsome man who looked vaguely like if Elvis had been a Viking. It was easy to forget he had other shapes.]

Humans in my world can't do anything like that.