Edgar has gotten used to the many types of responses he can receive when he first "speaks" to someone. That doesn't mean going through the initial discovery phase has gotten any easier. He braces himself, and beings the explanation he had gone through many times before.

I'm mute, but I can talk to you using my mind so long as we are touching, he patiently explains, lifting their joined hands to illustrate. I'll sound like people you know at first, but eventually my voice will settle into something that isn't anyone in particular.