Um, well. [The face thing is still jarring. Jimmy already experiences a bout of dysphoria and discomfort when he takes a new body, even when it's his. The years have lessened the reaction, but it still happens.]

That's the bigger thing, though, isn't it? He taught me how to survive so that we could work in tandem. I suspect he got enough of my DNA to mess with me. As for the rest ...

[His head cants.]

Don't they have contact with the AI that was ... hah, I still can't believe it—in his head? He's gotta be more up to date than me. Last I talked to Johann was when Spinetail went down. We weren't exactly tight, just—accustomed to one another for a couple centuries.