"I've heard it called 'adaptive camouflage', and there are lizard species in my world of origin with the same ability. Thus, it isn't a stretch that your ancestors, long ago, could have been lizards who found themselves adapting to a changing environment that required dramatic changes to their very beings. Changes that persisted and helped them survive to become the forebears and ancestors to your bloodline and eventually... to you."

He says this with the sense of wonder and awe of someone who's spent their life studying the world around them. But there's also a hint that he can't help an interest in her.

Before things turn too awkward, Cypher bounds back into view. 'Oy! Boss! found a 'uge truffle under a 'uge hoak tree!.' Cypher looks from one humanoid to the other, then settling on Ariadne, looking her up and down. 'Ye changed yer look.'