I don't think of myself as a monster, though. I was turned into one, but I'm still myself under all the opals and everything else.

[She shrugged as she followed after him and the maître-d' their table.]

But my feelings are not the popular ones here. I'm just kind of hoping this all falls off in the future when I go back home. Very hard to be a normal person when you have skin as hard as mine and all the opals everywhere.