Well, now you realize that conversation must happen. Bertie would just kind of... stare at Ienzo, then maybe lean away in the most subtle way possible. Hiding from him for the next few days would probably ensue before Bertie finally worked up the nerve to approach. And the first words out of his mouth, "My sister eviscerated three of her classmates when she changed the first time. They never told me, but she wrote to me after I changed the first time."