[Oh.]

[This is not going well at all.]

[Temeraire responds even more unsurely; he doesn't want to panic the girl, but he can't lie to her about it if it is some sort of terrible human disease.]

Well, it looks...blurred. I am not quite sure how to describe it, only that I have not seen anything like it before.

[He shifts slightly from foot to foot, looking practically fretful.]

Perhaps it is not so bad, if it does not hurt you?