[The former troll tilted her chin up in the slightest. She liked to think she had plenty of experience with observing and communicating with human not-quite-wigglers, and certainly had been hatched to care for the younger types. But theories and conjecture so rarely held up when it came to real life applications.]

[As such, she wasn't entirely sure how to speak to the young man, at least outside of her usual, longwinded way.]

Quite. My skin was far more akin to a sheet of writing-pulp, and had an aura of luminescence about it. [She paused, tongue running over now blunted teeth. Better to not mention that little detail.] I also possessed a pair of horns, if that interests you?