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[chuffle]

Does it make you feel better?

[The question is very gentle, very soft.]

[theshabbiestofmen]

[He shrugs sharply.]

It is what it is. You should tell me more about your world.

[chuffle]

What would you like to know?

[Her world and her life are different matters, and she's comfortable enough with one of them]

[theshabbiestofmen]

Anything.

[Thank god. They can move on and he can forget his embarrassment.]

Is it all tigers, or any animal? What determines what kind of animal you are?

[chuffle]

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.

[theshabbiestofmen]

There are voluntary shifters in my world-- animaguses, they're called-- but what animal you are is based on your soul, on what you truly are.

[chuffle]

This isn't...about souls. Although I believe in them.

We're a species. Like humans, only different.

Animaguses. Would they be...mages? Magicians?