[The gentle tone was enough to soothe Perell's emotional bruises, and he took that moment of confession to look up and regard Vyng in full seriousness.]

I remembered you having trouble with that before, which was why I thought to find you first. I was... I was gathering all of my data on the boat before I got to these shores, but I really was planning to tell you soon.

[He shrugged.]

Instead, I woke up here, and it feels like every day I'm fighting my own body over some new problem that pops up.

...It's a shame to hear you're still having trouble shapeshifting, [He added quietly.] You'd think that this world, being what it is, would have given someone like you more freedom.