Learning To Become

The first few attempts were disastrous and nearly cost Andrev his life. They tracked a large beast across the steppes - Rastaban noticed the tracks first, though Andrev had been dubious that anything that left a mark that big had feet and was not a rolled boulder instead.

They found a giant woolly beast with a snake-like nose and tusks. They found a white-striped tiger and a black-furred wolf. They found snakes and birds of prey that wheeled high in the sky and dropped on prey like lightning from the gods.

Andrev learned to become all of them.