I don't have family. That's the toren curse. Got kicked out of Thumar, made my own way. That's what I told you about, the shapefinding ritual.
Which means I should tell the rest of the cursed thing. You know we're shapeshifters on Karn. But you're not born with a shape, you come into it when you hit adult. Fourteen. So yeh, they put me through the tests. Shot fire, the griff dove me, fricking tiroth got his hands round my neck, nethik near-speared me. I'm not supposed to say any of that - it's one big damned secret of the priests. They say they're going to kill you and you're not supposed to know it's not true. They're just scaring you so you'll change.
But for me it was true, cause I couldn't change. So I ran like hell, and they grabbed their torches and came after, and I crossed into the forest where they were too scared to go. Never saw the bastards again.
*shrugs sharply, pries a bit of bark off the tree stump*
I think I'd like this girl Maggie.
On Karn you get raised by a lot of people too. It's just this place Dirt where you only get two parents. Kids are raised by the whole village, and when they're tiny, it's the mothers in the childhouse that suckle them. The fetus transfer stuff, you better ask Gy. I only know it happens.
I live in Teiranen with the other toren, when I'm not running 'round places like this. Got a cave behind the waterfall.
You sound smart enough to me. How smart do you have to be to go to this place your sister's going?
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Which means I should tell the rest of the cursed thing. You know we're shapeshifters on Karn. But you're not born with a shape, you come into it when you hit adult. Fourteen. So yeh, they put me through the tests. Shot fire, the griff dove me, fricking tiroth got his hands round my neck, nethik near-speared me. I'm not supposed to say any of that - it's one big damned secret of the priests. They say they're going to kill you and you're not supposed to know it's not true. They're just scaring you so you'll change.
But for me it was true, cause I couldn't change. So I ran like hell, and they grabbed their torches and came after, and I crossed into the forest where they were too scared to go. Never saw the bastards again.
*shrugs sharply, pries a bit of bark off the tree stump*
I think I'd like this girl Maggie.
On Karn you get raised by a lot of people too. It's just this place Dirt where you only get two parents. Kids are raised by the whole village, and when they're tiny, it's the mothers in the childhouse that suckle them. The fetus transfer stuff, you better ask Gy. I only know it happens.
I live in Teiranen with the other toren, when I'm not running 'round places like this. Got a cave behind the waterfall.
You sound smart enough to me. How smart do you have to be to go to this place your sister's going?