The 'marvelous' certainly caught her off guard. Back home, most responses to her true form were fear. In Deerington, it was confusion, more than anything else. Savage said he preferred her true form to her disguise.

But marvelous?

She didn't know how to respond to that. But lucky, there was enough for her to backtrack. "It's not magic," she told him, absently pulling her hair over her shoulder, palms spread protectively across it. "Sometimes, Humans call it a 'chemical camouflage.' They say that my people used to be lizards."

Truthfully, Ariadne didn't know how to feel about that. She understood the very, very basics of evolution. Enough not to feel insulted. But at the same time, she had difficulty imagining an island filled with lizards who suddenly decided it would be fun to start talking and worshipping the gods.