[He doesn't mean to sneak up on him by any means but it could be misconstrued to be as such as he comes up to also explore the bookshelf. The transformation appears to be going rather slowly for him but by this point he has lost movement of his left arm all the way to the elbow and there are some flecks on his face that appear to be way too smooth to still be human skin.]

Did you find something? [Hopefully something that isn't just more doom.]