He slowly turned to the girl and cocked his head to the side when she spoke. Tried what? Was she making a joke or something? Barret couldn't figure it out. Hesitantly, however, he answered her in his growl of a voice, "A few months." Maybe she knew a way to change him back, and she was just wanting to know how long the problem has gone on like it had.
His tail began to wave back and forth ever so slightly as thoughts of this girl curing him outright danced in his head. Maybe she was one of those super-genius eccentric scientists that did things like go into a forest and look for something to do.
Of course, that all left his mind when he recalled it was one of those types of scientists that turned him into this to begin with. Maybe it wasn't such a good thing after all.