He was still staring at his face as if it was his first time seeing it. He pressed his fingers to the skin of Lyle's cheek.

He felt overjoyed and terrified all at once.

It couldn't be what it looked like, could it? But Lyle's own obvious panic suggested it was - and physiology didn't lie.

"You're so human. Yet fractal. Complex. Intricate patterns endlessly repeating. Not isotropic - you only appear isotropic on a larger scale."