[ It's not exactly the question he'd been expecting, but he's secretly glad that she seems ... at least to believe him, and be taking it all in. Not telling him that he's lying or a freak or any variety of other colorful scenarios ]

No, it wasn't. Everything was sort of... upside-down, that week. I didn't have my usual power. I know, because I tested it. I could touch dead stuff and nothing happened. But I could make things grow, just by touching the ground and sort of wanting it to happen, and whenever I got hurt- [ He says it as if it happened rather a lot, even though it was only for the space of a few days ] -I healed.

But like I said, everything was insane that week. Daneel turned into a human and River turned into a tree spirit and half my friends were vampires for some reason.