[her eyes flicker toward him, bemused, but then she goes back to watching her hands]
Because of how I was made, my body doesn't know itself. An ordinary man, if he had his eyes covered, would still be able to tell you what position he was standing in, where his arms and legs are. I wouldn't. I have to rely on my eyes and the memory of how my body is shaped to do those things, and with my body changed, that memory is no longer accurate.
...Unless this change made me either much weaker or much quicker to adapt, there is a very real chance that I could injure someone by accidentally moving the wrong way.
/gets SERIOUS BUSINESS in all the crack (what else is new)
Because of how I was made, my body doesn't know itself. An ordinary man, if he had his eyes covered, would still be able to tell you what position he was standing in, where his arms and legs are. I wouldn't. I have to rely on my eyes and the memory of how my body is shaped to do those things, and with my body changed, that memory is no longer accurate.
...Unless this change made me either much weaker or much quicker to adapt, there is a very real chance that I could injure someone by accidentally moving the wrong way.