[Ithaqua pauses, before raising his head again and getting himself comfortable in this position. He's thinking.]

I believe... [Just a pause as he thinks on how he should string this thought together in order to form a sentence that makes sense. This is all speculation on his part, really. He had no idea what his pledge really did to him.

Then he shakes his head, abandoning his previous thought to start a new one.]

I am a monster who began life as a human. My body is the way it is because it changed-- I thought my transformation over when nothing on my body had changed aside from my eyes and limbs, but perhaps not.