[seems only slightly disconcerted by someone looking exactly like him - after all, in their true shapes, his brothers and cousins are all identical to him save for color]

[listens carefully... then slowly nods]

A matter of will, then..? Enforcing one's will on the structure and nature of reality?

[this is going to require some rather radical thinking, he realizes - but then, he's had all his expectations shattered before. Why not again?]