"No," he admitted, before he could think better of it. He finally realized what had seemed so off about ZEX since he'd come in-- both his eyes were open. What did that mean...? "But it's true. I swear I remember you clear as crystal, green and bumpy-looking and with that one big eye," and he gently laid his free hand over ZEX's eye for a moment, hiding it, before he used it to pet ZEX's hair, "and those wiggling tentacle-things around your head and a trunk and stuff." He took a breath. "That's who you are, who you should be."