"Oh, yeah no that's not exaggerated at all. Somewhere, you'll see a strange mark on your skin, and that might give you some idea of what yours might be; we're all broken up into four different categories." And just in case she hasn't already figured out the psychic network here, well, probably better to get that out of the way before someone yells in her head, because they will, since that's the easiest way to communicate with everyone at once, and many people aren't going to be as considerate with it. So a gentle telepathic thought pokes into her head:

«It also lets us do this.»

And another one, but this time in telepathic text formatting.

Or this. As well as sending visuals. It doesn't mean people can *read* your mind with it though, so there's that.

And back to actual talking, "But yes, I spent most of that month in the caves in a state of partial transformation. I'm a weird snake, one with horns." In case she was going to ask what. "It's thematically appropriate for something in my life, so this place can have jokes." Mostly a warning that if there's some theme like that in her life, it may just show up here in that form.