[Continued from here!]

[As she sits down beside him, he blinks, and has a sudden lightbulb moment.] Oh! So... You're kind of like a chameleon.

[Does she even know what those are? He's proud of himsef for thinking up that comparison, so he hastily elaborates,] It's a kind of lizard in my world. They can change the colour of their scales to camouflage themselves.