[ Strange sizes her up. There are other, more anthropological questions he wants to ask, but suspects would be too impolitic and unwelcome; what are illithids like outside of their reproduction? Is this the only way they can reproduce? Do they have any choice? What looks unsavoury in a parasite might just be a fact of biology—

But at least he’s tactful enough not to go down that route. Instead: ]

I’ve known you for several weeks now, and your skin doesn’t seem particularly grey, and your memory is as sharp as any student I’ve known.

[ A hint, an implication. ]

It seems it hasn’t followed you here, at least.