Mm, well, even werewolves are rare. Most shifters are werewolves, then it goes down the line - rats, birds, cats - big ones and little ones - and it's genetic. We can't spread it by bite.

You know I thought that was pretty standard, but the more wolves I meet here, the more it occurs to me that it's kind of unusual.

[She takes another sip.]

My father was a Khan - that's a tiger - and so was my grandfather, and my great-grandmother - and so on, and so forth.