Reptilian shapeshifters

Rimbo turn your air conditioner down to as cold as it can go! Cover your doors and floors in buckets of ice! Sit inside your freezer! Cover your body in those reusable ice packs! It’s your only chance now!

Alternatively, lock yourself in your freezer. Problem solved, either way.

Why? Are the reptile people going to nuke us?

It will keep him preserved until they decide to eat him.

iiitttt’’’'ssss rrreeaaalllyyy cccooolllddd iiinnn hhhheeerrree… aaarree yyoouu gggggguuuyyysss ssssuuurrreee aaabbbooouuuttt tttthhhiissss???/

They were gills, not eyelids. He was out of breath.