"Heh, at least I still got half my good looks." Humor will definitely keep the pain away. (It's funny because he never considered himself attractive to begin with. Haha. Ha.)

He coughs awkwardly into his fist. "Yeah, I'm turning Prawn. Or..." He can't remember if he ever actually learned what the non-humans called themselves. If he did he's forgotten it now. That hadn't bothered him before, but now he's left with a queasy feeling in his stomach. "I don't know what they named themselves. In the paperwork they were just 'non-humans'."